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Dreaming of Cinema : Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media / Adam Lowenstein.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and Culture SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›38Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231166577
  • 9780231538480
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/43 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.A8 L69 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Enlarged Spectatorship -- 2. Interactive Spectatorship -- 3. Globalized Spectatorship -- 4. Posthuman Spectatorship -- 5. Collaborative Spectatorship -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: 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 Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, André Breton, André Bazin, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Joseph Cornell and recognizes their significance for the films of David Cronenberg, Nakata Hideo, and Atom Egoyan; the American remake of the Japanese Ring (1998); and a YouTube channel devoted to Rock Hudson. Offering a positive alternative to cinema's perceived crisis of realism, this innovative study enriches the meaning of cinematic spectatorship in the twenty-first century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Enlarged Spectatorship -- 2. Interactive Spectatorship -- 3. Globalized Spectatorship -- 4. Posthuman Spectatorship -- 5. Collaborative Spectatorship -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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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 Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, André Breton, André Bazin, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Joseph Cornell and recognizes their significance for the films of David Cronenberg, Nakata Hideo, and Atom Egoyan; the American remake of the Japanese Ring (1998); and a YouTube channel devoted to Rock Hudson. Offering a positive alternative to cinema's perceived crisis of realism, this innovative study enriches the meaning of cinematic spectatorship in the twenty-first century.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

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