{"product_id":"postcinematic-vision-the-coevolution-of-moving-image-media-and-the-spectator-9781517907662","title":"Postcinematic Vision: The Coevolution of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e offer a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with the argument that film viewing has long altered neural circuitry in our brains, Roger F. Cook proceeds to reevaluate film’s origins, as well as its merger with digital imaging in the 1990s. His animating argument is that film has continually altered the relation between media and human perception, challenging the visual nature of modern culture in favor of a more unified, pan-sensual way of perceiving. Through this approach, he makes original contributions to our understanding of how mediation is altering lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Cook provides important reevaluations of well-known figures such as Franz Kafka, closely reading cinematic passages in the great author’s work; he reassesses the conventional wisdom that Marshall McLuhan was a technological determinist; and he lodges an original new reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e. Full of provocative and far-reaching ideas, \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful work that helps us see old concepts anew while providing new ideas for future investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roger F. Cook’s groundbreaking book, \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, is an original and intriguing contribution to the analysis of the emergence of cinematic technologies on the spectator. The analysis of changes in our perception in concert with changes in the history of film and post-filmic development is exigent for our time. \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e traces out a dialectical relationship between technologies and formal developments in film and changes in our experience of the body and its perceptual capacities, helping us take stock of where we stand today and what we stand against.\"—Todd McGowan, author of \u003ci\u003eEmancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Interrogating the cinema’s historical intermediality with rare clarity, Roger F. Cook claims that film’s historical transformations of perception and sensation in the early twentieth century still fundamentally shape the phenomenology of digital media—not to mention the sensoria of its users. Along the way, he engages with key critics from Marshall McLuhan and Friedrich Kittler to Anne Friedberg, Lev Manovich, and David Rodowick, challenging and revising their findings via compelling film readings and astute deployment of discourses as diverse as cybernetics and post-Romantic theories of writing. \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and singular work on living with twenty-first century media.\"—Paul Young, Dartmouth College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving-Image Media and Embodied Spectatorship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedia Convergence and Remediation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Film and the Embodied Mind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTechnogenesis: The Coevolution of the Biological and Technological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Phatic Image of Cinema—Reassessed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Consciousness Is an Epiphenomenon”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDual Temporalities of Media and the Mind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostcinematic Reflections on Spectatorship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. 1900: Film Transforms the Media Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm as Prosthetic Visual Consciousness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanized Culture and the Moving Image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm and the Tyranny of Writing: Franz Kafka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. 2000: Cinema and the Digital Image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntermedial Constructions of Cinema’s Virtual Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital Mediations of Movement, Space, and Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCinema and Singular Consciousness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409708949847,"sku":"9781517907662","price":77.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517907662.jpg?v=1730507752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postcinematic-vision-the-coevolution-of-moving-image-media-and-the-spectator-9781517907662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}