Supercinema : : Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age / / William Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Brown, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to that of Superman hiding his powers behind the persona of Clark Kent. Locating itself on the cusp of film theory, film-philosophy and cognitive approaches to cinema, Supercinema also looks at the relationship between the spectator and film that utilizes digital technology to maximum, ‘supercinematic’ effect.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Digital Cinema’s Conquest of Space -- 2 The Nonanthropocentric Character of Digital Cinema -- 3 From Temporalities to Time in Digital Cinema -- 4 The Film-Spectator-World Assemblage -- 5 Concluding With Love -- Bibliography -- Index