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 special capacity to record the real is either disappearing or being fundamentally changed by new media's different technologies. The Surrealist movement offers an ideal platform for resolving these tensions, undermining the claims of cinema's crisis of realism and offering an alternative interpretation of film's aesthetics and function. The Surrealists never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-231-16657-7
EAN: 9780231166577
Produktnummer: 16445996
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 374 g
Abbildungen: B&W Illus.: 38,
Gewicht: 374
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.