The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image
May 1998 · State University of New York Press
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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.
About the author
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.
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