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http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBwzN4v1vA0 “In their introduction to an eclectic collection of nineteen essays titled Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era, editors Dominique Chateau and José Moure call attention to the challenges posed by the prefix “post- “, highlighting its current ubiquity and acknowledging its slipperiness…” (Holly, 2021) According to this view, post cinematic films can be descripted as a…

02.11.2022 ‘Rotating hallway’ from Inception (2010), Dir. Christopher Nolan William Brown (2013) explains how digital cinema has opened up an unique ‘continuous’ logic that has created a way for movies to ‘push beyond the human understanding of space.’ Which creates plots and scenes that make sense to an audience while watching but are completely surreal…

20.10.2022 Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2015 ‘The Church Fight’ In classic cinema, an important aspect is continuity and making sure the audience always knows where they are. But that has been set aside with post-cinema. Action scenes are a good example of how post-cinema has changed the art of movie-making completely. Mattias Stork’s video essay…

With the rapid progress of digital technology, the Internet-distributed television exemplified by Netflix has become increasingly popular. Influenced by this inevitable phenomenon, contemporary television content has undergone a significant transformation, innovation and revolution. The production side has been consistently exploring different storytelling angles and new possibilities of representations in terms of gender, race, sexuality, etc. …

In 2013, Thomas Elsaesser made the point that Liquid hyper-reality “would lead to an impression not of movement but of metamorphosis…constitutive instability of scale, mobility of point of view, and inherent liquidity of the (visual) representation’”. Conveying how visual media is progressing towards the point where digital technology is allowing us to make fiction indistinguishable…

Denson and Leyda (2016) argued the meaningful interpretation of the term “post-cinema”. This is because simply using the term “post-cinema” is not without its dangers. For instance, this term might be too blunt to be used to characterise our present media landscape where the previous cinematic terms are still being used, yet we openly call…

Netflix is the most popular and successful streaming platform generating 225 million subscribers worldwide, it gives viewers access to television programmes without advertisements in-between and weekly breaks between each episode. Instead, you can get access to full seasons of your favourite programmes. With platforms such as Netflix comes the new practice and methods of watching…

“Film today is post-continuity, just as our culture in general is postmodern” (Shaviro, 2011, p.56). Shaviro attests that we are in a post-cinematic age where continuity has ceased to be important (ibid.) and established techniques have been intensified. This, however, has led to films overcompensating their replications of reality through digital technologies and post-production. Post-continuity/intensified…

Matthias Stork coined a new phrase to term the contemporary action films “chaos cinema,” where the striking visual effects overwhelm the story’s narrative with a series of “excessive “action movements. Chaotic cinema pursues a powerful sense of visual impact. In light of that, scenes switched fastidiously, vertiginously, with jumpy editing and discrete sound. Then, developing…

The boom of internet distributed television has made television more conveniently accessible than ever, and also in turn has given viewers more control and freedom as to what media they consume. Prior to this, in the network era viewers had less options due to the limitations of channel based viewing (as they were unable to…