The Transparency of Spectacle Meditations on the Moving Image

Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.

About the author

Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Endowed Professor of Film Studies, coeditor in chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and chairperson of the Film Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. His many books include The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image; The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; and The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image, all published by SUNY Press; and Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Dixon Wheeler Winston, Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 20.05.1998
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780791437827
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3782-7
• Pages: 223
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 327 g
• Series: Suny Series, Postmodern Cultur; Suny Series, Postmodern Cultur; Suny Postmodern Culture; SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism