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 "piracy" with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa, where political and social transformations makenew forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137529385
• ISBN13: 9781137529381
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"