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POST-CINEMA

Theorizing 21st-Century Film

  • 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
    • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
    • ARTWORK
    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    • PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION
    • E-BOOK ARCHIVE
    • BOOK TRAILER
    • UPDATES

Shane Denson & Julia Leyda (eds), Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film
(Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016; 2024).

ISBN 9780993199622 (online)
ISBN 9780993199639 (PDF)
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Print volumes now available to purchase at cost-price:
Volume 1
(ISBN: 9781739582029)
Volume 2
(ISBN: 9781739582036)
Volume 3
(ISBN: 9781739582043)
Volume 4
(ISBN: 9781739582050)

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

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