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Description for Cinemulacrum
Paperback. Cinemulacrum, a conflation of "cinema," the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture. This book examines the fall-and rise-of classical Hollywood and the hegemony of television in a media dyad of movies and television. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JMC; APFA; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 217.
Cinemulacrum, a conflation of “cinema,” the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture. This period is distinguished by the advent of digital film/video, an ideology of fantasy as the central narrative of movies and television, and a ruling audience demographic of the young adult. A pre-cinemulacrum era (1960-1980) and Age of Cinemulacrum (1980 to the present day) are demarcated to examine the fall—and rise—of classical Hollywood and the hegemony of television in a media dyad of movies and television. Cinemulacrum argues that the convergence of technology, ideology, and audience represent ... Read more
Cinemulacrum, a conflation of “cinema,” the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture. This period is distinguished by the advent of digital film/video, an ideology of fantasy as the central narrative of movies and television, and a ruling audience demographic of the young adult. A pre-cinemulacrum era (1960-1980) and Age of Cinemulacrum (1980 to the present day) are demarcated to examine the fall—and rise—of classical Hollywood and the hegemony of television in a media dyad of movies and television. Cinemulacrum argues that the convergence of technology, ideology, and audience represent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
Number of Pages
138
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761858416
SKU
V9780761858416
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About Aaron Sultanik
Aaron Sultanik is a teacher and writer in English and film/video. He is the author of Film: A Modern Art, Camera-Cut-Composition: A Learning Model, and Inventing Orders: An Essay and Critique in 20th Century American Literature (1950-2000).
Reviews for Cinemulacrum
Sultanik proposes a theory of contemporary cinema by drawing together two current bodies of knowledge: traditional cinema studies and Baudrillard's postmodern idea of the simulacrum. ... He develops the argument through a history and commentary on film and television from 1960-2010. . . it remains thought provoking.
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