| The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image Contributor(s): Dixon, Wheeler Winston (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791437817 ISBN-13: 9780791437810 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| LCCN: 97-24037 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: (1.10 lbs) 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |