Description
Summary: | Adam Lowenstein offers a positive alternative to cinema's perceived crisis of realism and, in so doing, enriches the meaning of cinematic spectatorship in the twenty-first century. He begins by showing how 'new' media have made theatrical cinema seem 'old'. He details how a sense of 'cinema lost' has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and explains that many people now worry that film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. He argues that the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and that it understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780231538480 0231538480 9781322571812 1322571813 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |