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Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media. In From Light to Byte Markos Hadjioannou asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the technological shift within media archaeologies.



Table of Contents


Contents


Preface

Introduction. Going Digital: Cinema’s New Age


1. The Reality of the Index, or Where Does the Truth Lie

2. Physical Presences: Reality, Materiality, Corporeality

3. Spatial Coordinates: In-between Celluloid Strips and Codified Pixels

4. Rediscovering Cinematic Time

5. Tracing an Ethics of the Movie Image

Conclusion. Change: A Point of Constant Departure


Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index



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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2012
      ISBN13: 9780816677627, 978-0816677627
      ISBN10: 081667762X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media. In From Light to Byte Markos Hadjioannou asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the technological shift within media archaeologies.



      Table of Contents


      Contents


      Preface

      Introduction. Going Digital: Cinema’s New Age


      1. The Reality of the Index, or Where Does the Truth Lie

      2. Physical Presences: Reality, Materiality, Corporeality

      3. Spatial Coordinates: In-between Celluloid Strips and Codified Pixels

      4. Rediscovering Cinematic Time

      5. Tracing an Ethics of the Movie Image

      Conclusion. Change: A Point of Constant Departure


      Acknowledgments

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Filmography

      Index



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