The Aesthetics of Digital Montage: Film Editing and Technological Change (1) (Cinema and Technology)

By: Marc Furstenau

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Synopsis: Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage. It is commonly argued that the changes to the technical apparatus of editing, the emergence of new systems for digital editing, have altered the basic identity or ontology of the cinema as an art. Such claims, it is argued in this book, are based on a misunderstanding of the relation between technology and technique, and more generally between the technical and the aesthetic. Applying recent theories of art, and employing specific concepts from philosophical aesthetics, an account of cinematic art is offered that can better accommodate the kinds of technical changes that have occurred in recent decades, with the advent of computer technology in the cinema. An aesthetics of digital montage is presented as part of a more general proposal for a theory of technical change in the cinema.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 294 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040784471
Related ISBNs:: 9781040774915, 9781003705093, 9781041187134, 9789463722803
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/22/25
Copyrighted By:: M. Furstenau / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet, Technology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.