Shard Cinema (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Watkins Media Limited, 2017
- Softcover
- New

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Paperback. With a range that takes in games, architecture, technology, and war, a cultural historian examines the history of film crosses from the early twentieth century to the present.Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades, and how they have changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world.In a set of interrelated essays that range from the writings of early factory workers to the distributed sight of contemporary surveillance, Williams argues for deep links between the images we see and the hidden labors frozen into them, exploring how even the apparently trivial or spectacular carries unique opportunities to detect the processes and social frictions of their making. Spanning film, video games, radical history, architecture, visual effects, and war, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that slowly took shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and post-production, filmed and animated, material and digital. Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters, shaky riot footage, disaster photography, and early cinema, Williams leads us from the computer-generated "shards" of particles and debris to the broken phones screen on which we watch these digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between. Synopsis coming soon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Shard Cinema (Paperback)
- Author
- Evan Calder Williams
- Publisher
- Watkins Media Limited
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1910924911
- ISBN 13
- 9781910924914
Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters and shaky riot footage, Williams leads us from computer-generated shards of particles and debris to the broken phone screen on which we watch those digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between.
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