Below is a starter bibliography—limiting myself to ten titles—that straddles the philosophy of film and other disciplines like neuroscience …
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Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema
Among my favorite books is Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema, in spite of originally being published in 1970, it still offers a fresh …
A framework for thinking about cyberspace
Daniel Downes suggests in Interactive Realism: The Poetics Of Cyberspace (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005) that it is people who …
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Cinema will eventually become a flexible means of writing
In 1948 Alexandre Astruc, a filmmaker and theorist, suggested the notion of caméra-stylo (camera pen) in his essay, “The Birth of a New …
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Digital imaging throws documentary into ontological crisis
Scholars have long discussed the ambiguity and subjectivity inherent in photographic representation with its seductive verisimilitude. Bill …
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Memory and the end of reality
The transformation from media as a form of cultural production to media as entertainment has lead us into a crisis as we enter the fifth …