Main entry:

Williams, Evan Calder.

Title & Author:

Shard cinema / Evan Calder Williams.

Publication:

London : Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd, 2017.

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
Fragment one -- Notes on composition -- Fragment two -- Operational sequences. Glass hands ; Operator error ; Violent motion -- Fragment three -- And finally into mist. Driftwood and silicon ; Two varieties of complaint ; Shard cinema -- Fragment four -- Distributed sight. The vanishing machine ; Figures in a threatscape -- Fragment five -- Stills from an unmade world. Unfrozen ; Then and now and never -- Fragment six.

Summary:

Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that took slow shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and post-production, filmed and animated, material and digital. Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters and shaky riot footage, Williams leads us from computer-generated "shards" of particles and debris to the broken phone screen on which we watch those digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between

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ISBN:

9781910924822 (electronic bk.)
1910924822 (electronic bk.)
1910924911
9781910924914

Subject:

Motion pictures.
Film criticism.
Critique cinématographique.
Cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS Film History & Criticism.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Essays