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The language of new media / Len Manovich.

By: Manovich, Lev.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.).Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001Description: xxxix, 354 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0262133741(hbk); 0262632551(pbk).Subject(s): Mass media -- Technological innovationsDDC classification: 302.2
Contents:
Introduction -- What is new media? -- The interface -- The operations -- The illusions -- The forms -- What is cinema?
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 302.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00094798
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- What is new media? -- The interface -- The operations -- The illusions -- The forms -- What is cinema?

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. x)
  • Prologue: Vertov's Dataset (p. xiv)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xxvii)
  • Introduction (p. 2)
  • A Personal Chronology (p. 3)
  • Theory of the Present (p. 6)
  • Mapping New Media: Method (p. 8)
  • Mapping New Media: Organization (p. 11)
  • The Terms: Language, Object, Representation (p. 12)
  • 1 What Is New Media? (p. 18)
  • How Media Became New (p. 21)
  • Principles of New Media (p. 27)
  • What New Media Is Not (p. 49)
  • 2 The Interface (p. 62)
  • The Language of Cultural Interfaces (p. 69)
  • The Screen and the User (p. 94)
  • 3 The Operations (p. 116)
  • Menus, Filters, Plug-Ins (p. 123)
  • Compositing (p. 136)
  • Teleaction (p. 161)
  • 4 The Illusions (p. 176)
  • Synthetic Realism and Its Discontents (p. 184)
  • The Synthetic Image and Its Subject (p. 199)
  • Illusion, Narrative, and Interactivity (p. 205)
  • 5 The Forms (p. 212)
  • The Database (p. 212)
  • Navigable Space (p. 244)
  • 6 What Is Cinema? (p. 286)
  • Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image (p. 293)
  • The New Language of Cinema (p. 309)
  • Index (p. 335)

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