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| 0851-9859-01 | Media Archaeology - Tracking Digital Cinema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Media Archaeology has been a catchword in the fields of film studies and media studies for almost three decades now. My forthcoming book Film History as Media Archaeology – Tracking Digital Cinema covers general reflections and specific case studies written over a period of some twenty-five years, always keeping in the centre the cinema as an extraordinary mutable phenomenon, impossible to fix and yet firmly established in our culture and its imaginary for at least one hundred years. Rather than posing the question: “what is cinema”, media archaeology is as much concerned with “where is cinema”, “when is cinema”, and even asking “why is cinema”. It wants to explore alternative genealogies for the cinema, which allows digital cinema to emerge as part of a much broader history of image-making, rather than as either a radical break from analogue cinema, or merely “business as usual.”