Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Foreword 9
5. Introduction 13
6. Section I: Experience
7. 1. When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Technology, History, And The Moving Pictures 33
8. 2. Exhibition Practices In Transition: Spectators, Audiences, And Projectors 51
9. 3. Reel Changes: Post-Mortem Cinephilia Or The Resistance Of Melancholia 79
10. 4. Walter Benjamin’S Play Room: Where The Future So Eloquently Nests , Or: What Is Cinema Again? 101
11. Section II: Study
12. 5. Hitchcock, Film Studies, And New Media : The Impact Of Technology On The Analysis Of Film 127
13. 6. Film Analysis And Statistics: A Field Report 149
14. 7. A ‘Distant Reading’ Of The ‘Chaser Theory’ : Local Views And The Digital Generation Of New Cinema History 169
15. Section III: Theory
16. 8. Cine-Graphism : A New Approach To The Evolution Of Film Language Through Technology 195
17. 9. Can We Have The Cave And Leave It Too? On The Meaning Of Cinema As Technology 213
18. 10. On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, And Tape Splicers : Questioning The History Of Techniques And Technology In Cinema 239
19. Index 261