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Post-cinema Emotions in the Chinese Film Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum is a classic film directed by the famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou, adapted from Mo Yan’s novel of the same name. Released in 1987, the film tells the love story of a young girl Jiuer and a winery owner in rural China in the 1930s, as well as their lives and struggles against…
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Digital Animation: The Evolution from Hand-Drawn to 3D and Beyond
The evolution of animation, from simple hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital animation, has undergone tremendous change. This journey reflects not only rapid technological advancements but also changes in storytelling, creativity, and audience expectations. Moving from traditional hand-drawn methods to modern 3D animation, and with even more possibilities in the future, animation as a medium has…
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Post continuity and post cinematic form – a new age of quality (?) cinema
Steven Shaviro makes an interesting argument in regards to post cinema – that film production is just the beginning of post-production. Whilst this seems like a common-sense step-by-step process of filmmaking, he suggests that film today has an increased use and reliance of post cinematic techniques, such as CGI, photorealistic morphing and hyper-realism. The concept…
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Post-continuity in We Live In Time by John Crowley
We Live In Time is A24’s romance/comedy starring Andrew Garfield as Tobias and Florence Pugh as Almut. Ahead of its UK release in January, I previewed it at BFI’s Film Festival. Spoilers included… It encapsulates post-continuity filmmaking through its structure and plot, rather than editing. For example, throughout the entire structure of the film, there…
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The Ontological Perplexity of the Post-cinematic World: CGI and Photorealism in TRON: LEGACY (2010)
Post-cinema has introduced a new way to make films. No longer is it necessary for actions to occur thanks to CGI and Hyperrealism, not there is new technology that creates the commodification of real movement. Tron: Legacy (2010), discusses the protagonist, Sam, falling into a virtual reality, a video game his father, a video game…
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“Supercinema vs. post-continuity: How digital cinema rewrites the rules of film”
In the digital age, cinema has undergone a radical transformation. Two theorists, William brown and steven shaviro, offer different perspective on how digital technologies are reshaping the art of filmmaking. brown’s concept of supercinema focuses on how digital tools have expanded cinema’s ability to depict space and immerse viewers in new realities. whereas shaviro’s idea…
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Post-Cinematic Affect in Classic Cinema: A look at ( gestures of thought: vibrate contact (an homage to Alan Lamb) Through Shaviro’s lens
Shaviro explores the transformation of cinema and media in the digital age focusing on how film and other visual media evoke emotions and affect beyond traditional cinematic techniques. Shaviro argues that in post-cinematic Affect that film during the classical cinematic era had different way of engaging viewers compared to what he calls “post-cinematic”. In classical…
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Post Continuity of Post Cinematic Narratives
Example film – Eternal Sunshine with the Spotless Mind (2004) William argues that the editing of digital cinema spatialises ‘time’ so that we can travel from ‘real’ moments to ‘imagined’ or ‘remembered’ moments without necessarily seeing a clear demarcation between them (Williams, 2015). In this editing jigsaw, as viewers, we feel the continuity between real…
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The Usage of Modern Media Formats in the Age of Post-Cinema
Media ecology can be described as the study of new media forms and how they relate to modern culture and communication. Since this concept is centered around the constant evolution of media, it is important to discuss how media ecologies have impacted the post-cinema era, as new digital mediums hare now been integrated into numerous…
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