The New Film History as Media Archaeology
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The authors assesses the impact of digital technologies on our understanding of film history and makes a case for a new historiographical model, Media Archaeology, in order to overcome the opposition between "old" and "new" media, destabilized in today's media practice.Abstract:
The article assesses the impact of digital technologies on our understanding of film history. While the “New Film History” has revitalized the study of the cinema’s “origins,” it has not yet proven itself equally successful in analyzing the subsequent turn-of-the-century multi-media conjuncture. Faced with this challenge, the essay makes a case for a new historiographical model, “Media Archaeology,” in order to overcome the opposition between “old” and “new” media, destabilized in today’s media practice. The field of audio-visual experience needs to be re-mapped, clarifying what is meant by embodiment, interface, narrative, diegesis, and providing new impulses also for the study of non-entertainment uses of the audio-visual dispositif.read more
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Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern
TL;DR: Friedberg as mentioned in this paper explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging "virtual reality" technologies.
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
TL;DR: Bukatman's "Terminal Identity" as discussed by the authors explores the nature of human identity in the Information Age, referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen.
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Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions, and discuss their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists.