1st Edition
The Aesthetics of Digital Montage Film Editing and Technological Change
By Marc Furstenau
Copyright 2024
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of illustrations, Introduction, 1: The Fate of Film Editing, 2: Editing, Intention, and the Work of Film Art, 3: The Technology and Technique of Film Editing, 4: Digital Montage and the Ontology of the Cinema, 5: The Art of Editing in the Digital Era, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Marc Furstenau is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He published articles on a range of topics and is the editor of The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments (Routledge, 2010), co-editor of Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices (Palgrave, 2008), and co-editor of Special Effects on the Screen: Faking the View from Méliès to Motion Capture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022). He is past editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies.
