Material properties of historical film in the digital age
In his landmark study THE VIRTUAL LIFE OF FILM, David N. Rodowick rephrases André Bazin’s famous question ‘what is cinema?’ using the past tense: ‘what was cinema?’ He notes that, paradoxically, film studies is dealing with an object that no longer exists; it ceased existing as an object of study in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
2012-01-01
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| Series: | NECSUS : European journal of media studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/material-properties-of-historical-film-in-the-digital-age/ |
| Summary: | In his landmark study THE VIRTUAL LIFE OF FILM, David N. Rodowick rephrases André Bazin’s famous question ‘what is cinema?’ using the past tense: ‘what was cinema?’ He notes that, paradoxically, film studies is dealing with an object that no longer exists; it ceased existing as an object of study in the 1970s when ‘cinema’ as ‘the projection of a photographically recorded filmstrip in a theatrical setting’ was replaced by various other means of presentation, such as video cassettes and later video discs. |
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| ISSN: | 2213-0217 |