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Digital dialectics: the paradox of cinema in a studio without walls

MCQUIRE, S. ( 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.
Impact aesthetics: Back to the future in digital cinema?

MCQUIRE, SCOTT ( 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.