Supercinema
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Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age is a 2013[1] film-philosophy academic textbook by William Brown, Senior Lecturer in Film, and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the School of Arts at the University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom.[2]
Production
The book was published by Berghahn Books in 2013.[3][4]
Synopsis
Supercinema combines philosophy of film,
Supercinema discusses convergent digital cinema. And that total cinema would involve no editing and little meaningful narrative. And would include single-take films and long-take films, and that single shots allow us to rethink perspective, and reconceptualize the frame.[7]
Brown implies that there is an imminent new age of cinema coming, Supercinema.[8]
Critical reception and influence
The book has been described as "challenging" by Francesco Sticchi.[9]
The concepts put forward in the book are further advanced in Paul Virilio's 2016 book Drone Age Cinema.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ "Book Review: Supercinema: Film-Philosophy For the Digital Age, by William Brown". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ISBN 978-1-78238-901-9.
- ^ "William Brown". Intellect Books. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ Sticchi, Francesco. "Book Review: Supercinema by William Brown".
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- ^ S2CID 191572872.
- ^ ThriftBooks. "Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the... book by William Brown". ThriftBooks. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
- S2CID 194406790.