Beschreibung
Through the analysis of examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to viral films on the internet, and from Victorian cinema to the present, the contributors to this volume discuss the ways in which thinking about technology is crucial to understanding cinema's forms, significance and impact upon audiences.
Autorenporträt
MARIE-LUISE ANGERER is Principal of the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany ANDREW CLAY is Senior Lecturer in Critical Technical Practices at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK JAMES ELKINS is E.C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA THOMAS ELSAESSER is Professor in the Department of Media and Culture and Director of Research, Film and Television at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands JAN HARRIS is an independent scholar whose research is concerned with the impact of new media on cultural forms, and the philosophy of technology MICHELLE LANGFORD is Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia PETER LESTER is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada MAJA MANOJLOVIC is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, USA PAUL S. MOORE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada KATE O'RIORDAN is Lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUES lectures in Media Arts at the University of Plymouth, UK BILL SCHAFFER teaches Film and Animation Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia AYLISH WOOD is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent, UK
