Postcinematic Vision

The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator

AvRoger F. Cook

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experienceHow has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, Postcinematic Vision offer a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media.Starting with the argument that film viewing has long altered neural circuitry in our brains, Roger F. Cook proceeds to reevaluate film’s origins, as well as its merger with digital imaging in the 1990s. His animating argument is that film has continually altered the relation between media and human perception, challenging the visual nature of modern culture in favor of a more unified, pan-sensual way of perceiving. Through this approach, he makes original contributions to our understanding of how mediation is altering lived experience.Along the way, Cook provides important reevaluations of well-known figures such as Franz Kafka, closely reading cinematic passages in the great author’s work; he reassesses the conventional wisdom that Marshall McLuhan was a technological determinist; and he lodges an original new reading of The Matrix. Full of provocative and far-reaching ideas, Postcinematic Vision is a powerful work that helps us see old concepts anew while providing new ideas for future investigation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-10
Mått:140 x 216 x 25 mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Posthumanities
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9781517907662

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Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

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Roger F. Cook is professor of German studies and director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Missouri. He has written extensively on film and media theory, New German Cinema, and contemporary German film. He coedited The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition and is coeditor of Berlin School Glossary: An ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema.

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"Roger F. Cook’s groundbreaking book, Postcinematic Vision, is an original and intriguing contribution to the analysis of the emergence of cinematic technologies on the spectator. The analysis of changes in our perception in concert with changes in the history of film and post-filmic development is exigent for our time. Postcinematic Vision traces out a dialectical relationship between technologies and formal developments in film and changes in our experience of the body and its perceptual capacities, helping us take stock of where we stand today and what we stand against."-Todd McGowan, author of Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution"Interrogating the cinema’s historical intermediality with rare clarity, Roger F. Cook claims that film’s historical transformations of perception and sensation in the early twentieth century still fundamentally shape the phenomenology of digital media-not to mention the sensoria of its users. Along the way, he engages with key critics from Marshall McLuhan and Friedrich Kittler to Anne Friedberg, Lev Manovich, and David Rodowick, challenging and revising their findings via compelling film readings and astute deployment of discourses as diverse as cybernetics and post-Romantic theories of writing. Postcinematic Vision is a compelling and singular work on living with twenty-first century media."-Paul Young, Dartmouth College

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsIntroductionMoving-Image Media and Embodied SpectatorshipMedia Convergence and Remediation1. Film and the Embodied MindTechnogenesis: The Coevolution of the Biological and TechnologicalThe Phatic Image of Cinema-Reassessed“Consciousness Is an Epiphenomenon”Dual Temporalities of Media and the MindPostcinematic Reflections on Spectatorship2. 1900: Film Transforms the Media LandscapeFilm as Prosthetic Visual ConsciousnessMechanized Culture and the Moving ImageFilm and the Tyranny of Writing: Franz Kafka3. 2000: Cinema and the Digital ImageIntermedial Constructions of Cinema’s Virtual RealityDigital Mediations of Movement, Space, and TimeCinema and Singular ConsciousnessConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex