The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image

Wheeler Winston Dixon

1998. máj. · State University of New York Press

Információk az e-könyvről

While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.

A szerzőről

Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chair of the Film Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze in Cinema; The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema; and Re-Viewing British Cinema 1900–1992: Essays and Interviews, all published by SUNY Press, as well as The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut.