Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable?: The Screen Arts in the Digital Age (Film Culture in Transition)

Hoffmann, Kay

ISBN 10: 9053563121 / ISBN 13: 9789053563120

Edité par Amsterdam University Press, 1998

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Synopsis :

In the late 1960s, the cinema was pronounced dead. Television, like a Biblical Cain had slain his brother Abel. Some thirty years later, a remarkable reversal: rarely has the cinema been more popular. And yet, rarely has the cinema's future seemed more uncertain. Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable? presents a careful and forceful argument about predictions that tend to be made when new technologies appear. Examining the complex dynamics of convergence and divergence among the audio-visual media, the authors are realistic in their estimate of the future of the cinema's distinctive aesthetic identity, and robustly optimistic that the different social needs audiences bring to the public and domestic media will ensure their distinctiveness, as well as the necessary openness of cultural meaning and creative imput. The chief contributors include producers, historians, critics and journalists from several countries, creating a lively volume, rich in information and case studies, useful to media students and film scholars, as well as to anyone interested in better understanding the momentous changes transforming our worlds of sound and image.

À propos de l?auteur: Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019) was Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

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Titre : Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable?: The ...
Éditeur : Amsterdam University Press
Date d'édition : 1998
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good