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From analogue to digital: Media Transformations in Jurassic Park and Blade Runner
Cinema and television have undergone a profound transformation with the shift from analogue to digital technologies, altering how stories are produced, exhibited, and consumed. While some critics debate the depth of this change, most agree it has significantly redefined the medium’s capabilities and aesthetics. This evolution can be explored through two landmark films: Blade Runner…
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The use of Mixed Media in the Post-Continuity Found Footage Horror: The Tunnel (2011)
Post-cinema explores ‘new media’ and diverts from the centuries-long legacy of what film has always been. According to Denson and Leyda, in exploring 21st-century media, post-cinema becomes a lens to observe how these new technologies and stylistic techniques aid us in understanding, shaping, and reflecting “new forms of sensibility.” The Tunnel is a 2011 horror,…
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Music Videos in the Shifting of Digital Media: “Telephone”
Vernallis argues that after the initial flowering in the 1980s, the music video has entered a new aesthetic era, characterized by new digital technologies, new kinds of cross-media authorship, and new transmedia potentials for expression she refers to as the “mixing board aesthetic” (Vernallis, 2013). Vernallis points out that the MTV music video model has…
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Trans TV and “Euphoria”
Michael Goddard and Christopher Hogg’s work on ‘Trans TV as concept and intervention into contemporary television’ from “Critical Studies in Television” provides a lens; their study points out: “Trans TV operates as an intervention into these multiple contemporary transformations of television, arguing that they need to be thought together, and especially that discussions of technological…
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The Post Cinematic Form of “Doctor Strange”
Digital technology has changed cinema such that the ‘D-word’ has now become an inescapable element of moving image technology (Enticknap 2005: 202). The shift from traditional to digital cinema resulted from changes in realism and the emergence of new image technologies. The post-cinematic perspective challenges people to think about the affordances (and limitations) of the…
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Week 4: Netflix, Binge-viewing and Internet distributed film and TV
With a new ‘post-network’ era in which television has indeed been revolutionized (Lotz, 2017), we have arguably entered another phase of television, referred to by Mareike Jenner as ‘TVIV’ or the fourth stage of television(Jenner, 2023), in which new generation of content distributors like Netflix and Amazon now take the lead. By abandoning the model…
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“Everything Everywhere All at Once”: A Visual and Emotional Feast of the Post-Cinema Era
Post-cinema, a theoretical norm indicating new forms, developments, and issues of 21st-century cinema, also carries the significance of changes in film narrative. Digital technology enables filmmakers to combine various media elements such as animation, games, and social media, creating narrative styles and viewing experiences. Post-cinema is a term used to explore “how … “21st-century media…
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Welcome to Post-Cinema: Movies Will Never Be the Same Again
On May 16, 2002, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones made its theatrical debut. Set ten years after the events of the first Star Wars prequel film The Phantom Menace, the latest project from the visionary mind of George Lucas was all anybody talked about that summer. One firm predicted that companies would lose more than $320 million in productivity because so…
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Week 10: Audiovisual Communication and Forms on New Platforms
social media is so widely used today, opinions from both experts and non-experts have more sway as they can now reach a much larger audience. Some people have been inspired by this to dedicate their time to sharing their thoughts on social media in a professional, semi-professional, or random manner. These individuals are referred to…
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