Shard cinema
Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that took slow shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and…
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- Full title :Shard cinema / Evan Calder Williams.
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Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that took slow shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and post-production, filmed and animated, material and digital. Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters and shaky riot footage, Williams leads us from computer-generated "shards" of particles and debris to the broken phone screen on which we watch those digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781910924822, 1910924822
- oclc:ocn988281769
- LC Classification:PN1995
- Dewey Decimal:791.4301
Table of Contents
Fragment one -- Notes on composition -- Fragment two -- Operational sequences. Glass hands ; Operator error ; Violent motion -- Fragment three -- And finally into mist. Driftwood and silicon ; Two varieties of complaint ; Shard cinema -- Fragment four -- Distributed sight. The vanishing machine ; Figures in a threatscape -- Fragment five -- Stills from an unmade world. Unfrozen ; Then and now and never -- Fragment six.
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