Dreaming of Cinema - Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-16656-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. Returning to their interpretation of film's aesthetics and function, this book reads the writing, films, and art of Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, André Breton, André Bazin, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Joseph Cornell and recognizes their significance for the films of David Cronenberg, Nakata Hideo, and Atom Egoyan; the American remake of the Japanese Ring (1998); and a YouTube channel devoted to Rock Hudson. Offering a positive alternative to cinema's perceived crisis of realism, this innovative study enriches the meaning of cinematic spectatorship in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowenstein, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cinema as Digital Dream Machine1. Enlarged Spectatorship: From Realism to Surrealism: Bazin, Barthes, and The (Digital) Sweet Hereafter2. Interactive Spectatorship: Gaming, Mimicry, and Art Cinema: Between Un chien andalou and eXistenZ3. Globalized Spectatorship: Ring Around the Superflat Global Village: J-Horror Between Japan and America4. Posthuman Spectatorship: The Animal in You(Tube): From Los olvidados to "Christian the Lion"5. Collaborative Spectatorship: The Surrealism of the Stars: From Rose Hobart to Mrs. Rock HudsonAfterword: Marking Cinematic TimeNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Lowenstein is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also directs the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film.