25 | NEW DIGITAL CINEMA

A concise and accessible introduction to contemporary digital cinema, this volume tracks its intersection with video art, music video, animation, print design and live club events to create an avant-garde for the new millennium. It begins by investigating digital cinema and its contribution to innovations in the feature- film format, examining animation and live-action hybrids, the gritty aesthetic of the Dogme 95 filmmakers, the explosions of frames within frames and the evolution of the 'ambient narrative' film. This study then looks at the creation of new genres and moving- image experiences as what we know as 'cinema' enters new venues and formats

February 2005
128 pages

978-1-904764-25-0 (pbk)

£12.99

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Holly Willis is the editor of RES Magazine and co-curator of RESFEST. She has written extensively on independent and experimental media.

'Holly Willis's compact book does a fine job of tracing the fundamental shift in perception and creation that has accompanied the digital transition. Willis has performed a valuable service by ploughing through the often spectacularly unreadable prose of postmodern theorists and illuminating their key ideas.'
– Dave Kehr, Film Comment

‘A well-researched and well-written study of the emergence and importance of new digital cinema. It does an excellent job of embedding the discussion of the rise of digital cinema in the larger context of culture, power and technology. It will be highly useful in film and new media courses that survey and explore digital cinema as a vibrant and even revolutionary movement.’
– Nicholas Rombes, University of Detroit Mercy

'Taking in Hollywood CGI-spectaculars and mini-DV independents, desktop-filmmakers and installation artists, this book delivers a highly readable and much needed survey of the diverse currents coursing through the circuits of digital cinema.'
– Chris Darke, author of Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts