{"product_id":"the-virtual-life-of-film-9780674026988","title":"The Virtual Life of Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media, what will happen to cinema—and to cinema studies? Rodowick considers the fate of film and its role in the aesthetics and culture of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucid and forceful, D.N. Rodowick persuasively argues for the enduring relevance of film theory in an age in which film, itself, has been enhanced, extended, and transformed by new media platforms and forms. Skeptical and dialectical, this profound and graceful meditation reconsiders the photographic ontology of cinema and concepts such as \"medium,\" \"virtuality,\" and \"automatism\"—its aim not only the preservation and expansion of film studies as a humanities discipline but also a recuperation of the important philosophical questions that have been foundational for film theory. This is \"must\" reading for anyone interested in understanding the nature and experience of the moving image. -- Vivian Sobchack, Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eCalmly, intrepidly, Rodowick dives straight into the churning waters of \u003ci\u003eThe Virtual Life of Film\u003c\/i\u003e. Just as cinema anchors new media, so film theory anchors these philosophical speculations that dare to imagine the digital untethered. Neither apocalyptic nor nostalgic, Rodowick appears equipoised as he explores what's behind and in front of this brave new media world. -- Dudley Andrew, R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature, Yale University\u003cbr\u003eOver the years Rodowick has provided perhaps the most thorough readings and evaluations of contemporary, post-classical film theory any scholar has offered. \u003ci\u003eThe Virtual Life of Film\u003c\/i\u003e offers his speculations about cinema's digital transformation. An important work, it raises vital issues...In the opening chapters Rodowick offers one of the most nuanced and complex descriptions of the photographic in cinema ever presented. -- Tom Gunning * Film Comment *\u003cbr\u003eThere is much to stimulate, provoke and argue within a book that successfully taps into the scholarly Zeitgeist. -- Ian Christie * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The Virtual Life of Film   1. Futureworld   2. The Incredible Shrinking Medium   3. Back to the Future    Part II: What Was Cinema?   4. Film Begets Video   5. The Death of Cinema and the Birth of Film Studies   6. A Medium in All Things   7. Automatisms and Art   8. Automatism and Photography   9. Succession and the Film Strip   10. Ways of Worldmaking   11. A World Past   12. An Ethics of Time    Part III: A New Landscape (without Image)   13. An Elegy for Film   14. The New \"Media\"   15. Paradoxes of Perceptual Realism   16. Real Is as Real Does   17. Lost in Translation: Analogy and Index Revisited   18. Simulation, or Automatism as Algorithm   19. An Image That Is Not \"One\"   20. Two Futures for Electronic Images, or What Comes after Photography?   21. The Digital Event   22. Transcoded Ontologies, or \"A Guess at the Riddle\"   23. Old and New, or the (Virtual) Renascence of Cinema Studies    Acknowledgments","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037257040215,"sku":"9780674026988","price":27.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674026988.jpg?v=1750935024","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-virtual-life-of-film-9780674026988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}