1st Edition

Cinematic Interfaces Film Theory After New Media

By Seung-hoon Jeong Copyright 2014
281 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

281 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent and efficient but rather as asymmetrical, ambivalent, immanent, and multidirectional. Jeong enlists the new media term "interface" to bring to film theory a synthetic notion of interfaciality as... Read more
Introduction  1. The Medium-Interface  2. The Body-Interface  3. The Surface of the Object  4. The Face of the Subject  5. Image and Subjectivity 

Biography

Seung-hoon Jeong is an Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi in the Film and New Media program.

 'This original, brilliant, and graceful book uses the concept of the "interface" both theoretically and philosophically to develop an extremely useful framework through which to coherently explore and compare our experience not only of cinema but also of other moving image platforms. Also providing an analytic history of contemporary film theory, it will be an exciting addition to the graduate classroom.'-- Vivian Sobchack, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television

'Operating in the gap between phenomenological and apparatus theory, Jeong brings Deleuze's and Levinas' understandings of the face together with the cultural theory of interface to make a powerful new way to consider the cinema in a period of rapid and radical change.'—Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

'Cinematic Interfaces combines speculative theoretical inquiry with rigorous analysis of films. It presents a radical rethinking of both film and film theory in the age of new media. Of particular significance is its reassessment of the cinematic apparatus – especially of image and subjectivity – as a series of interfaces.'--Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University