Synopses & Reviews
"New media" has become a catchword describing the digital delivery of media via the Internet, DVD, and digital television. It is also a reference to the changes such technologies have brought to media more generally. And yet the nature of the transformation from old to new media has been over-hyped and little understood.
The New Media Book features twenty accessibly written, newly commissioned, provocative essays designed to be used in a range of courses, providing a critical framework for understanding the field of moving image studies.
The book is divided into five sections: "Technologies," "Production," "Texts," "Consumption," and "Contexts." Throughout the essays ask how new media is both embracing and altering the existing media landscape; consider the changing methods of production, distribution, and exhibition within the media industry; and look at how the histories of traditional media have influenced the development of new media.
Synopsis
Providing an accessible, critical intervention into the field of moving image studies, this book features 20 commissioned essays in a format designed to be of wide use to a range of course in digital media, film and television studies.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-255) and index.
About the Author
Dan Harries in Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Middlesex University and is the author of Film Parody (2000) and co-author of Film and Video on the Internet (1996).
Table of Contents
Cable, satellite and digital technologies / Michele Hilmes -- Digital filming and special effects / Sean Cubitt -- CD and DVD / Anne Friedberg -- The Internet and the World Wide Web / Jeremy G. Butler -- The business of new media / John Caldwell -- The new intertextual commodity / P. David Marshall -- Innovation, piracy and the ethos of new media / Douglas Thomas -- Emerging global ecologies of production / Tom O'Regan and Ben Goldsmith -- The impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics / Michael Allen -- Narrative equivocations between movies and games / Marsha Kinder --Online comics and the reframing of the moving image / Scott Bukatman -- The myths of interactive cinema / Peter Lunenfeld -- Interactive audiences? / Henry Jenkins -- Watching the Internet / Dan Harries -- Self, other and electronic media / Tara McPherson -- The future of film distribution and exhibition / Janet Wasko -- Old media as new media : cinema / Lev Manovich -- Old media as new media : television / William Uricchio -- New media as old media : cinema / Jan Simons -- New media as old media : television / William Boddy.