Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age
William Brown
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Description for Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age
Hardcover. Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to that of Superman hiding his powers behind ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857459497
SKU
V9780857459497
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99-15
About William Brown
William Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Roehampton, London. He has written articles for journals and edited collections with a particular emphasis on the use of digital technology in contemporary cinema across a range of national and transnational contexts. He is also a filmmaker, having made four feature films since 2009.
Reviews for Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age
“With this challenging book, William Brown shows how cinema is a powerful and living machine of thought with which we can build productive and innovative interactions in a way that allows us to call into question entire metaphysical systems, thus making of the seventh art an instrument for philosophical thought in all its complexity.” · New Review of Film and ... Read more