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The Transparency of Spectacle|Wheeler Winston Dixon

The Transparency of Spectacle : Meditations on the Moving Image

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Overview

Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.

While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780791437827
  • ISBN-10: 0791437825
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publish Date: May 1998
  • Dimensions: 8.95 x 5.89 x 0.54 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.69 pounds
  • Page Count: 223

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