The Language of New MediaMIT Press, 22 févr. 2002 - 400 pages A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media. |
Table des matières
FOREWORD by Mark Tribex | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxvii | |
A PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY 3 | |
METHOD 8 | |
What Is New Media? 18 | |
PRINCIPLES OF NEW MEDIA 27 | |
Automation 32 | |
Variability 36 | |
The Resistance to Montage 141 | |
Digital Compositing 152 | |
TELEACTION 161 | |
Distance and Aura 170 | |
SYNTHETIC REALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS 184 | |
The Icons of Mimesis 195 | |
ILLUSION NARRATIVE AND INTERACTIVITY 205 | |
The Forms 212 | |
Transcoding 45 | |
WHAT NEW MEDIA IS NOT 49 | |
The Myth of Interactivity 55 | |
The Interface 62 | |
THE LANGUAGE OF CULTURAL INTERFACES 69 | |
Representation versus Control 88 | |
THE SCREEN AND THE USER 94 | |
A Screens Genealogy 95 | |
Representation versus Simulation 111 | |
The Operations 116 | |
Postmodernism and Photoshop 129 | |
Database and Narrative 225 | |
Greenaway and Vertov 237 | |
Computer Space 253 | |
The Navigator and the Explorer 268 | |
EVE and Place 281 | |
What Is Cinema? 286 | |
A Brief Archeology of Moving Pictures 296 | |
From KinoEye to KinoBrush 307 | |
Spatial Montage and Macrocinema 322 | |
INDEX 335 | |