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POST-CINEMA
Theorizing 21st-Century Film
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Edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda
CONTENTS
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction
1. Parameters for Post-Cinema
1.1 What is Digital Cinema? – Lev Manovich
1.2 Post-Continuity: An Introduction – Steven Shaviro
1.3 DVDs, Video Games, and the Cinema of Interactions – Richard Grusin
2. Experiences of Post-Cinema
2.1 The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic, and Electronic “Presence” – Vivian Sobchack
2.2 Post-Cinematic Affect – Steven Shaviro
2.3 Flash-Forward: The Future is Now – Patricia Pisters
2.4 Towards a Non-Time Image: Notes on Deleuze in the Digital Era – Sergi Sánchez
2.5 Crazy Cameras, Discorrelated Images, and the Post-Perceptual Mediation of Post-Cinematic Affect – Shane Denson
2.6 The Error-Image: On the Technics of Memory – David Rambo
3. Techniques and Technologies of Post-Cinema
3.1 Cinema Designed: Visual Effects Software and the Emergence of the Engineered Spectacle – Leon Gurevitch
3.2 Bullet Time and the Mediation of Post-Cinematic Temporality – Andreas Sudmann
3.3 The CHORA Line: RealD Incorporated – Caetlin Benson-Allott
3.4 Splitting the Atom: Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision – Steven Shaviro
4. Politics of Post-Cinema
4.1 Demon Debt: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory – Julia Leyda
4.2 On the Political Economy of the Contemporary (Superhero) Blockbuster Series – Felix Brinker
4.3 Reality Effects: The Ideology of the Long Take in the Cinema of Alfonso Cuarón – Bruce Isaacs
4.4 Metamorphosis and Modulation: Darren Aronofsky’s BLACK SWAN – Steen Christiansen
4.5 Biopolitical Violence and Affective Force: Michael Haneke’s CODE UNKNOWN – Elena del Río
5. Archaeologies of Post-Cinema
5.1 The Relocation of Cinema – Francesco Casetti
5.2 Early/Post-Cinema: The Short Form, 1900/2000 – Ruth Mayer
5.3 Post-Cinematic Atavism – Richard Grusin
5.4 Ride into the Danger Zone: TOP GUN (1986) and the Emergence of the Post-Cinematic – Michael Loren Siegel
5.5 Life in Those Shadows! Kara Walker’s Post-Cinematic Silhouettes – Alessandra Raengo
6. Ecologies of Post-Cinema
6.1 The Art of Morphogenesis: Cinema in and beyond the Capitalocene – Adrian Ivakhiv
6.2 Anthropocenema: Cinema in the Age of Mass Extinctions – Selmin Kara
6.3 Algorithmic Sensibility: Reflections on the Post-Perceptual Image – Mark B. N. Hansen
6.4 The Post-Cinematic Venue: Towards an Infrastructuralist Poetics – Billy Stevenson
7. Dialogues on Post-Cinema
7.1 The Post-Cinematic in PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 – Therese Grisham, Julia Leyda, Nicholas Rombes, and Steven Shaviro
7.2 Post-Cinematic Affect: A Conversation in Five Parts – Paul Bowman, Kristopher L. Cannon, Elena del Río, Shane Denson, Adrian Ivakhiv, Patricia MacCormack, Michael O’Rourke, Karin Sellberg, and Steven Shaviro
7.3 Post-Continuity, the Irrational Camera, Thoughts on 3D – Shane Denson, Therese Grisham, and Julia Leyda
7.4 Post-Cinema, Digitality, Politics – Julia Leyda, Rosalind Galt, and Kylie Jarrett
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