Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
Building Imaginary Worlds: Religion and Mythology
Lev Manovich writes that “the new media object consists of one or more interfaces to a database of multimedia material…” and that “this formulation places the opposition between the database and the narrative in a new light, thus redefining our concept of narrative. The “user” of a narrative is traversing [...]
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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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