Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
My first of many posts to come.
Here is a link to a jaw droppping trailer for Sony’s franchise game on its (next Gen) Playstation – this clip is from a forthcoming game scheduled for release next winter (2006). An example par excellence of how video games have appropriated the narrative codes of cinema.
http://www.konami.jp/gs/kojima_pro/japanese/mgs4_04.html
click the little video camera to start the video. Mindblowing.
Thu, October 13 2005 » Future Cinema
This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.
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