The Transparency of Spectacle
Author | : Wheeler Winston Dixon |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998-05-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781438401270 |
ISBN-13 | : 1438401272 |
Rating | : 4/5 (272 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Transparency of Spectacle written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph. More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.