"This collection ... [focuses] on the relations of cinema to other media, artworks and diverse forms of entertainment, demarcating their sometimes conjoined, sometimes separate, histories ... [and] seeks to make visible the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh Univ. Press 2013
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Motion pictures / Social aspects Intermediality Media Studies. > ukslc Film Gesellschaft Neue Medien Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"This collection ... [focuses] on the relations of cinema to other media, artworks and diverse forms of entertainment, demarcating their sometimes conjoined, sometimes separate, histories ... [and] seeks to make visible the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one another, demonstrating how what we have called 'cinematicity' makes itself felt in practices of seeing, reading, writing and thinking both before and after the 'birth' of cinema"--Page 1
Beschreibung:	"Chapters 1 to 3, Chapter 6 and Chapter 9 appeared in a special issue of Comparative critical studies 6.3 (October 2009), entitled 'Cinematicity' and a verson of Chapter 4 appeared in a special issue of e-Comparative critical studies: special online supplement 9.3 (October 2012)"--Acknowledgements, unnumbered page viii Introduction : cinematicity and comparative media / Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau -- Part 1. Cinematicity before cinema -- 1. Dickensian 'dissolving views' : the magic lantern, visual storytelling and the Victorian technological imagination / Joss Marsh -- 2. 'Never has one seen reality enveloped in such a phantasmagoria' : watching spectacular transformations, 1860-89 / Kristian Moen -- 3. Moving-picture media and modernity : taking intermediate and ephemeral forms seriously / Ian Christie -- Part 2. Transitions : early cinema and cinematicity -- 4. Reading in the age of Edison : the cinematicity of 'The yellow wall-paper' / Karin Littau -- 5. Time and motion studies : Joycean cinematicity in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Keith B. Williams -- 6. Nature caught in the act : on the transformation of an idea of art in early cinema / Nico Baumbach -- Part 3. Cinematicity in the 'classic' cinema age -- 7. Cinematicity of speech and visibility of literature : the poetics of Soviet film scripts of the early sound film era / Anke Hennig -- 8. Making America global : cinematicity and the aerial view / Jeffrey Geiger -- 9. Invisible cities, visible cinema : illuminating shadows in late film noir / Tom Gunning -- Part 4. Digital cinematicity -- 10. Cinema, video, game : astonishing aesthetics and the cinematic 'future' of computer graphics' past / Leon Gurevitch -- 11. Miniature pleasures : on watching films on an iPhone / Martine Beugnet -- 12. Kino-eye in reverse : visualizing cinema / Lev Manovich Includes bibliographic references (pages 235-239) and index
Beschreibung:	XI, 244 S. Ill. 25 cm