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New Medium Specificities: Toward a Politics and a Poetics of Digital Cinema- [electronic resource]
New Medium Specificities: Toward a Politics and a Poetics of Digital Cinema - [electronic ...
New Medium Specificities: Toward a Politics and a Poetics of Digital Cinema- [electronic resource]

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자료유형  
 학위논문파일 국외
최종처리일시  
20240214100126
ISBN  
9798379786762
DDC  
791
저자명  
Denison, Alex.
서명/저자  
New Medium Specificities: Toward a Politics and a Poetics of Digital Cinema - [electronic resource]
발행사항  
[S.l.]: : The University of Iowa., 2023
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
형태사항  
1 online resource(202 p.)
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Creekmur, Corey.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2023.
사용제한주기  
This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation engages with the concept of medium specificity in order to illustrate its continued relevance for film and media studies despite frequent claims of its obsolescence in the age of media convergence. Theories of convergence generally argue that medium specificity no longer holds weight after the supposed "digital revolution" in which distinctions between media like television, video games, and cinema become blurred because they can be accessed on the same devices such as laptops or smartphones. Yet cinema in particular has been a hybrid medium since its inception and classical film theory from the 1930s to the 1960s often attests to this fact even as it sought to define the unique properties of this new art form. Recent theories of convergence occlude this historical fact and frequently function as little more than capitulations to media conglomerates that have the most to gain from such theories.I argue that medium specificity is still a valid framework for film studies precisely because digitality has called cinema's autonomy into question. As many contemporary scholars have noted, digital cinema certainly constitutes a rupture with previous conceptions of cinema in the analog age. Yet this rupture is also accompanied by many contiguities with the past. One example is the concept of filmic indexicality (i.e. cinema's inherent connection with physical reality). While some theorists posit that this concept is specific to analog processes while digitality is defined by the opposite concept of manipulation, I maintain that digital documentaries about social and political issues reveal that indexicality continues to be an integral part of the moving image regardless of its technological base. Medium specificity, I argue, can help to discover both the profound changes that digital cinema has wrought in the history of film as well as the persistence of many aspects that have defined cinema since its emergence in the late 19th century.My dissertation is organized into four chapters that explore my argument for the relevance of medium specificity from various standpoints. Chapter One ("Media Convergence as Medium Specificity in Classical Film Theory") looks to canonical writers like Rudolf Arnheim and Andre Bazin who defined cinema's specificity via its crosspollination with other art forms like painting and theater. Chapter Two ("Celluloid Base/Pixelated Trace: Profilmic Digitality in Analog Cinema") argues for a social rather than technological determination of a medium like cinema and shows how many films can be categorized as digital cinema even as they continue to rely on film stock as their technological base. Chapter Three ("Analog Begets the Digital, from SD to HD") looks to filmmakers like Agnes Varda and Pedro Costa who made the switch from analog to digital production, taking advantage of the new possibilities in digital image capture while simultaneously maintaining the political and social convictions present in their analog work. And Chapter Four ("Digital Materialism and Materiality in Experimental Cinema") focuses on experimental filmmakers who use digital technology to comment on the environmental impact of that very same technology.
일반주제명  
Film studies.
일반주제명  
Sociology.
일반주제명  
Political science.
일반주제명  
Multimedia communications.
키워드  
Critical theory
키워드  
Digital cinema
키워드  
Film theory
키워드  
Media theory
키워드  
Analog Cinema
기타저자  
The University of Iowa Film Studies
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01A.
기본자료저록  
Dissertation Abstract International
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