The State of Post-Cinema: Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new digital communication platforms of various kinds. The authors investigate how film has become more than cinema, no longer a medium that is based on the photochemical recording and replay of movement. Most often, the state of post-cinema is conceptualized from the "high end" of the most advanced technology; discussions focus on performance capture and digital 3-D, 4-K projection and industrial light & magic. Here, the authors' approach is focused on the "low-end" circulation of filmic images. This includes informal networks of exchange and transaction, such as p2p-networks, video platforms and so called ôpiracyö with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa, where political and social transformations make new forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.

• | Author: Malte Hagener, Vinzenz Hediger, Alena Strohmaier
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1137529385
• | ISBN-13: 9781137529381