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Dreaming of Cinema
Adam Lowenstein
其他書名
Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
出版
Columbia University Press
, 2014-11-11
主題
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Art / Film & Video
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production
Social Science / Media Studies
Art / Digital
Art / History / Contemporary (1945-)
Performing Arts / Film / General
ISBN
0231538480
9780231538480
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tU8xBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
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.