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Title The New media book / edited by Dan Harries
Published London : British Film Institute, 2002

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Description x, 262 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents 1. Technologies. 1.1. Cable, Satellite and Digital Technologies / Michele Hilmes. 1.2. Digital Filming and Special Effects / Sean Cubitt. 1.3. CD and DVD / Anne Friedberg. 1.4. The Internet and the World Wide Web / Jeremy G. Butler -- 2. Production. 2.1. The Business of New Media / John Caldwell. 2.2. The New Intertextual Commodity / P. David Marshall. 2.3. Innovation, Piracy and the Ethos of New Media / Douglas Thomas. 2.4. Emerging Global Ecologies of Production / Tom O'Regan and Ben Goldsmith -- 3. Texts. 3.1. The Impact of Digital Technologies on Film Aesthetics / Michael Allen. 3.2. Narrative Equivocations between Movies and Games / Marsha Kinder. 3.3. Online Comics and the Reframing of the Moving Image / Scott Bukatman. 3.4. The Myths of Interactive Cinema / Peter Lunenfeld -- 4. Consumption. 4.1. Interactive Audiences? / Henry Jenkins. 4.2. Watching the Internet / Dan Harries. 4.3. Self, Other and Electronic Media / Tara McPherson. 4.4. The Future of Film Distribution and Exhibition / Janet Wasko -- 5. Contexts. 5.1. Old Media as New Media: Cinema / Lev Manovich. 5.2. Old Media as New Media: Television / William Uricchio. 5.3. New Media as Old Media: Cinema / Jan Simons. 5.4. New Media as Old Media: Television / William Boddy
Summary Providing an accessible, critical intervention into the field of moving image studies, this book features 20 newly commissioned essays in a format designed to be of wide use to a range of courses in digital media, film and television studies
Notes Sean Cubitt is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Mass media -- Technological innovations.
Computers and civilization.
Mass media and technology.
Mass media.
Author Harries, Dan, 1963-
LC no. 00002433
ISBN 0851709249 hardback
0851709257 paperback