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Publication Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Bloomsbury Publishing US
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Description
Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardization in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied and proliferated, taking up an increasingly important part of our everyday multimedia environment. Short films or micro-narratives, cinematic pieces or units re-assembled into image archives and looping themes, challenge the concepts that have traditionally been used to understand cinematic experience, like linear causality, sequentiality, and closure, and call attention to complex and modular forms of cinematic expression and perception. Such forms, in turn, seem to meet the requirements of digital convergence, which has pushed the development of more compact and mobile hardware for the display and use of audiovisual content on laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Meanwhile, contemporary economies of digital content acquisition, filing, and sharing equally require the shrinking of cinematic content for it to be recorded, played, projected, distributed, and installed with ease and speed. In this process, cinematic experience is shortened and condensed as well, so as to fit the late-capitalist attention economy. The essays in this volume ask what this changed technical, socio-economic and political situation entails for the aesthetics and experience of contemporary cinematics, and call attention to different concepts, theories and tools at our disposal to analyze these changes.
Contents
Introduction Compact Cinematics: Screen, Capture, Attention // Pepita Hesselberth (Leiden University, The Netherlands) & Maria Poulaki (University of Surrey, UK) Part 1 [Short] Minimal Narratives 1. Countdown to Zero: Compressing Cinema Time // Tom Gunning (The University of Chicago, US) 2. On Conflict in Short Film Storytelling // Richard Raskin (Aarhus University, Denmark) 3. Accelerated Gestures: Play Time in Agnes Varda's Cleo de 5 a 7 // Peter Verstraten (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 4. Lynch on the Run: The Proximity of Trauma in the Short Film // Todd McGowan (The University of Vermont, USA) Part 2 [Condensed] Polyphonic Archives 5. The Ethics of Repair: Re-Animating the Archive // Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 6. Long Story Short // Natalie Bookchin (Rutgers, USA) 7. Skip Intro? Short Video Intros as a Reflexive Threshold in the Interactive Documentary// Tina M. Bastajian (Webster University the Netherlands, The Netherlands) 8. The Viewser as Curator: The Online Film Festival Platform // Geli Mademli (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Part 3 [Compressed] Pleasure & Productivity 9. The Contingent Spectator // Francesco Casetti (Yale University, USA) 10. Speed Watching, Efficiency, and the New Temporalities of Digital Spectatorship // Neta Alexander (The New York University Tisch School of the Arts, USA) 11. Visual Pleasure and GIFs // Anna McCarthy (The New York University Tisch School of the Arts, USA) 12. Solitary Screens: On the Recurrence and Consumption of Images // Pasi Valiaho (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Part 4 [Miniature] Mobile Cinematics 13. Archaeology of Mobile Film: Blink, Bluvend and the Pocket Short // Kim Louise Walden (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 14. Children's Little Thumb Films or Films-Poucets // Wanda Strauven (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany) and Alexandra Schneider (University in Mainz, Germany) 15. Of Flip Books & Funny Animals: Chris Ware's Quimby the Mouse // Yasco Horsman (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 16. Mobile Cinematics // Maria Engberg (Malmoe University, Sweden) and Jay David Bolter (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Part 5 [Compacted] Urban Ecologies 17. Screening Smart Cities: Managing Data, Views, and Vertigo // Gillian Rose (The Open University, UK) 18. Of Compactness: Life with Media Facade Screens // Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 19. Codified Space: Cinematic Recodings of Urban Reality // Justin Ascott (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)
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