Giovanna Fossati
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Film is in a state of rapid change: the transition from analog to digital is profoundly affecting not just filmmaking and film distribution but a number of other facets of the industry, including the ways in which films are archived. In From Grain to Pixel-the first volume in the new Framing Filmseries from Amsterdam University Press-Giovanna Fossati brings together scholars and archivists to discuss their theories on digitization and to propose new...
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In From Grain to Pixel , Giovanna Fossati analyzes the transition from analog to digital film and its profound effects on filmmaking and film archiving. Reflecting on the theoretical conceptualization of the medium itself, Fossati poses significant questions about the status of physical film and the practice of its archival preservation, restoration and presentation. From Grain to Pixel attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent this novation represents a unitary current or multiple ways. The book proposes to integrate the post-cinema question within the post-art question in order to study the new way of making filmic images in new conditions more or less remote from the dispositif of the theater and in closer relationship with contemporary...