'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 shows how categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database, work with the more familiar conventions to make possible a new kind of aesthetic.

Manovich uses existent concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical concepts, 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.' —from the back cover

With a Foreword by Mark Tribe. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Onsite

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REF.MAL3
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2001

No of pages

394

ISBN / ISSN

9780262632553

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction

1 What Is New Media?

2 The Interface

3 The Operations

4 The Illusions

5 The Forms

6 What Is Cinema?

The Language of New Media
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The Language of New Media