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ItemDigital dialectics: the paradox of cinema in a studio without walls( 1999)This essay presents a brief history of the impact of digital technology on cinema. Drawing on original interviews with leading Australian film makers, it firstly examines how changes in technology are affecting contemporary film production. It then extends this analysis to consider the implications of such changes for contemporary film theory.
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ItemThe uncanny home: television, transparency and overexposure( 1997)I recently read a description of the house which is currently being built for Microsoft cyber-baron Bill Gates. Gates conceived his new residence as a state of the art merging of computer technology with architecture. At an estimated cost of $50 million, the house will naturally boast all the standard automated functions such as climate control and electronic security systems, as well as a few extras like a hot tub which switches itself on as soon as the master's car enters the grounds.
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Item'The go-for-broke game of history': the camera, the community and the scene of politics( 1994)Contemporary transformations in communication technologies – such as the digitalization of traditional photography, the proliferation of new delivery systems for television, the merging of camera, computer and television systems in fully ‘interactive’ media, Virtual Reality – have generated considerable debate. The fact that these debates now extend across was are often isolated discourses, linking technical manuals to corporate agendas and government policies, while granting cultural theory its place in the sun of the popular media, registers the extent to which these shifts are perceived to intervene at the fundamental levels of social life.
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ItemFrom code to the everyday( 2005)In this essay analysing four recent books, I trace the mutation of the concept of digital from the chilling prognosis of Baudrillard in the 1970s to the material diffusion of digital culture in the image worlds andeveryday life of early 21st century.
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ItemImpact aesthetics: Back to the future in digital cinema?( 2000)This article engages recent debates about the future of cinema in the digital age. It seeks to broaden the rather narrow terms in which the transition to digital cinema is often understood in film theory. It also tries to assess claims about the 'demise of narrative' that are frequently associated with the digital threshold. I argue that a more dialectical understanding of the relation between terms such as 'narrative' and 'spectacle' is needed to advance current debates. In place of the technological determinism which aligns digital technology with 'blockbuster'films, an understanding based on the politics of spectacle and the ambivalence of distracted spectatorship is advanced.