"This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence"--
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"This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence"--
"Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on the screen and…
Switching on: the beginning of television -- Live television -- The series (1) -- Flow -- Interconnecting -- Instant replay -- Switching: remote control -- The series (2) Reality and history -- Switch-of-Images. "Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th…
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"--
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"
Cinema has always displayed an affinity to characters with distorted or even hallucinatory relations to reality. With films such as 'The Truman Show', the 'Matrix' films or 'Inception', contemporary filmmakers add another layer to this canon of film characters: unwitting ordinar…
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"--
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"--
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"--
"What is a medium? If Nietzsche was right in claiming that "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts," that media help us "think," and if different media allow for different ways of thinking, then the "body" of the respective medium in question, its materi…
What is a medium? If Nietzsche was right in claiming that "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts," that media help us "think," and if different media allow for different ways of thinking, then the "body" of the respective medium in question, its materia…