Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as Media Archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinema's current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers, while also examining the presence of moving images in the museum and art spaces as a challeng...(展开全部)

Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is approached from the stand...(展开全部)

The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the consolidation of a planetary consciousness is yet to be matched. This book tells a different story. It argues that this narrative has failed to account for the vertiginous global imaginati...(展开全部)

This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers...(展开全部)

In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after that re-edition, this book continues to occupy an important place in the literature of film. Arnheim's method, provocative in this age of technological wizardry, was to focus on th...(展开全部)

罗伯特•C•艾伦（Robert C. Allen），北卡罗来纳大学历史系教授，主要研究美国大众娱乐与流行文化史，著有关于美国广播电视史的《话说肥皂剧》，关于美国19世纪与20世纪早期大众戏院的《令人不快的愉悦：杂耍表演与美国文化》。他开设有美国影视媒体史，全球化与民族身份，美国家庭社会变迁，社会与文化历史比较等课程。 道格拉斯•戈梅里（Douglas Gomery），马里兰大学美国广播与电影图书馆（世界五大广播图书馆之一）资深学者、荣休教授，曾在马里兰大学教授传播学，为《村声》杂志撰稿，出版了十余本关于美国媒体经济学与历史学的著作，如《好莱坞制片厂制度史》、《声音的到来》等，大量著作已被翻译为八种语言。

This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology. This fourth edition now inclu...(展开全部)

This fourth edition ofour bestselling classic text has been comprehensively updated and revised toincludecontemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood,Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition andtechnology. This fourth edition no...(展开全部)