The Orientation of Future Cinema Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle [Paperback]

What is the fate of cinema in an age of new technologies, new aesthetic styles, new modes of cultural production and consumption? What becomes of cinema and a century-long history of the moving image when the theatre is outmoded as a social and aesthetic space, as celluloid gives over to digital technology, as the art-house and multiplex are overtaken by a proliferation of home entertainment systems?
The Orientation of Future Cinemaoffers an ambitious and compelling argument for the continued life of cinema as image, narrative and experience. Commencing with Lumi?re'sArrival of a Train at a Station, Bruce Isaacs confronts the threat of contemporary digital technologies and processes by returning to cinema's complex history as a technological and industrial phenomenon. The technology of moving images has profoundly changed; and yet cinema materialises ever more forcefully in digital capture and augmentation, 3-D perception and affect, High Frame Rate cinema, and the evolution of spectacle as the dominant aesthetic mode in contemporary studio production.

Part 1: The Age of Late Cinema
Chapter 1: What is Cinema?
Chapter 2: The Question of Cinema Art: The Legitimacy of Film Style
Chapter 3: The Effect of the Screen
- The Synthetic Narrative
- The Synthetic Image
Part 2: High Concept Cinema: Image, Effect, Spectacle
Chapter 4: Historicizing Concept Cinema: A Crisis in the Image
Chapter 5: The Industrial Context of High Concept Production: Continuities and Discontinuities
Chapter 6: Classical High Concept Aesthetics
- A Case Study of Steven Spielberg and James Cameron
- Incorporating Cinema: The Commoditization of the Image
Part 3: Beyond Cinema: Reflections on a Future
Chapter 7: New Technologies of the Image
Chapter 8: The New Wave
- Christopher Nolan
- Michael Bay
- Roland Emmerich
Chapter 9: Future Modalities of the Image (The Paradox of High Concept 3-D Cinema)
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