CONTENTS

POST-CINEMA: THEORIZING 21ST-CENTURY FILM

Edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda

 

Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction – Shane Denson and Julia Leyda

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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