Cinematic perspectives on digital culture: consorting with the machine

By 1920 one of the most recognised faces on the planet belonged to Charlie Chaplin, confirming the influence of a powerful new medium. Today's film fans turn to Facebook and Twitter to follow their heroes. While the ubiquitous smart phone enmeshes consumers in nets of connectivity, interactivity requires that actors are also ensnared: thirty-two cameras simultaneously scrutinizing the face of the actor enables performance to blend with game logic. However, this book denies that new technology constitutes a hiatus. Instead the author arguesthat interaction with smart phones and tablet computers is part of a complex,historic continuum. The moving image represents a leap forward, proving that technology extends into (and out of) the mind as well as the body. Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, and employing concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory, the author employs .Sunset Boulevard .(1950) as a key text. Discussing the affect of mechanisms of make-believe and celebrity that extend from an early victim ofemerging celebrity culture (in 1915), to the avatar-obsessed game player of digital culture, this book makes visible previously ignored relations with machinic assemblages of desire. INDICE: Acknowledgements .Contents .Foreword .Introduction .PART I: APPROACHES TO DIGITAL CULTURE .A Conceptual History .Mobile Affect .Affective Networks .PART II: CINEMATIC PERSPECTIVES .Classical Hollywood's Mature Technology .Stars and Avatars .Film and Hybridity .PART III: CONSORTING WITH THE MACHINE .Machines of Celebrity .Machines of Legal Subjectivity .Machines of the Networked Assemblage .Machines to Consort With .Notes .Bibliography .Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29892-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 12/10/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido