Adam Lowenstein

Dreaming of Cinema

Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

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Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of new media have made theatrical cinema seem old. A sense of cinema lost has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. Returning to their interpretation of film's aesthetics and function, this book reads the writing, films, and art of Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Andre Breton, Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Joseph Cornell and reco… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-231-16656-0
EAN: 9780231166560
Produktnummer: 16445995
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H16.0 cm x B23.6 cm x D1.8 cm 480 g
Abbildungen: B&W Illus.: 38,
Gewicht: 480
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Adam Lowenstein is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also directs the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film.