Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age

by William Brown

Book Overview

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085745949X
• ISBN13: 9780857459497
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"