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Stephen Prince offers a clear, concise account of how digital cinema both extends longstanding traditions of filmmaking and challenges fundamental assumptions about film. In the process, he raises provocative questions about the emergence of virtual reality, the future of film preservation, and the status of realism in digital cinema.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Cinema as Construction: Then and Now
2. Reasons for Realism
3. Cheating Physics
4. Beyond Cinema
5. Everywhere and Nowhere
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
About the author
STEPHEN PRINCE is a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He has written or edited numerous books, including Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality and A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki (both Rutgers University Press).
Summary
Considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analogue era. In the process, this book raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a pixel-generated digital medium whose scenes often defy the laws of physics.
