Flickers of Film : Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema.

Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo or celebrating arcade games in Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. Flickers of Film offers a nuanced look at the benefits and risks of this nostalgia, considering how it regi...

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Main Author: Sperb, Jason
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
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Summary:Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo or celebrating arcade games in Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. Flickers of Film offers a nuanced look at the benefits and risks of this nostalgia, considering how it registers industry-wide uncertainty with the dominance of the digital, even as it ignores the people whose livelihoods have been most affected by the economic transformations of the digital era.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:9780813576046
0813576040
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.