The Cinema Effect by Sean Cubitt (Author)
Publisher: The MIT Press (March 1, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0262033127 | PDF | 6,5 Mb | 464 pages
It has been said that all cinema is a special effect. In this highly original examination of time in film Sean Cubitt tries to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images and sounds that don\'t quite align with reality. What is it that cinema does? Cubitt proposes a history of images in motion from a digital perspective, for a digital audience. From the viewpoint of art history, an image is discrete, still. How can a moving image–constructed from countless constituent images–even be considered an image?