 |
|
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (Film and Culture Series)
Adam Lowenstein
Hardcover. Columbia University Press 2014-11-11.
ISBN 9780231166560
|
|
|
|
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
|
Publisher description
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
More books by Adam Lowenstein
Similar books
Rate the book
Write a review and share your opinion with others. Try to focus on the content of the book. Read our instructions for further information.
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
Book reviews » Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (Film and Culture Series)
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
