Jason Sperb

Flickers of Film

Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the benefits of certain types of film nostalgia, while also critiquing how Hollywood's nostalgic representations of old technologies obscure important aspects of their histories. Jason Sperb interprets this affection for the prehistory and infancy of digital technologies in relation to an industry-wide anxiety about how the digital has grown to dominate Hollywood, pushing it into an uncertain future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780813576022
• ISBN-10: 0813576024
• Artikelnr.: 42742395

Autorenporträt

Sperb, Jason

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Self-Theorizing Nostalgia
1          I’ll (Always) Be Back: Virtual Performances; or, The Cinematic
Logic of Late Capitalism
2          They Saw No Future: New Nostalgia Movies and Digital Exhibition
3          Digital Decasia: Preserving Film, Database Histories, and the
Potential Value of Reflective Nostalgia
4          Going Home . . . for the First Time: Pixar Studios, Digital
Animation, and the Limits of Reflective Nostalgia
5          TRON Legacies: Disney and Nostalgia Blockbusters in the Age of
Transmedia Storytelling
6          Game (Not) Over: Videogame Pastiche and Nostalgic Disavowals in
the Post-Cinematic Era
Conclusion: On Clouds and Be Kind Rewind
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index