Cinema and Technology Cultures, Theories, Practices [Hardcover]

Through the analysis of examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to viral films on the internet, and from Victorian cinema to the present, the contributors to this volume discuss the ways in which thinking about technology is crucial to understanding cinema's forms, significance and impact upon audiences.Biographical Notes Acknowledgements Introduction: B.Bennett, M.Furstenau& A.Mackenzie PART 1: FORMAT The Perilous Gauge: Canadian Independent Film Exhibition and the 16mm Mobile Menace; P.Lester BMW Films and the Star Wars Kid: 'Early Web Cinema' and Technology; A.Clay On Some Limits to Film Theory (Mainly From Science); J.Elkins PART 2: NORMS Socially Combustible: Panicky People, Flammable Films, and the Dangerous New Technology of the Nickelodeon; P.Moore Cinema and its Doubles: Kittler vs. Deleuze; J.Harris Genomic Science in Contemporary Film: Institutions, Individuals and Genre; K.O'Riordan PART 3: SCANNING Cinema as Technology: Encounters with an Interface; A.Wood Demonlover : Interval, Affect and the Aesthetics of Digital Dislocation; M.Manojlovic 'Into the d?cor': Attention and Distraction, Foreground and Background; C.Rodrigues Children, Robots, Cinephilia and Technophobia; B.Bennett PART 4: MOVEMENT Lola and the Vampire: Technologies of Time and Movement in German Cinema; M.Langford Inbetweening: Animation, Deleuze, Film Theory; B.Schaffer Affective Troubles and Cinema; M-L.Angerer Afterword: Digital Cinema and the Apparatus: Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies; T.Elsaesser Bibliography IndexMARIE-LUISE ANGERER is Principal of the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, GermanyANDREW CLAY is Senior Lecturer in Critical Technical Practices at De Montfort University, Leicester, UKJAMES ELKINS is E.C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USATHOMAS ELSAESSER is Professor in the Department of Media and Culture and Director of Research, Film and Television at tlÃ<