The language of new media /

Manovich, Lev.

The language of new media / Lev Manovich. - 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002. - xxxix, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Leonardo . - Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Prologue: Vertov's Dataset -- What Is New Media? -- How Media Became New -- Principles of New Media -- What New Media Is Not -- The Interface -- The Language of Cultural Interfaces -- The Screen and the User -- The Operations -- Menus, Filters, Plug-Ins -- Compositing -- From Image Streams to Modular Media -- The Resistance to Montage -- Archeology of Compositing: Cinema -- Archeology of Compositing: Video -- Digital Compositing -- Compositing and New Types of Montage -- Teleaction -- Representation Versus Communication -- Telepresence: Illusion Versus Action -- Image-Instruments -- Telecommunication -- Distance and Aura -- The Illusions -- Synthetic Realism and Its Discontents -- Technology and Style in Cinema -- Technology and Style in Computer Animation -- The Icons of Mimesis -- The Synthetic Image and Its Subject -- Illusion, Narrative, and Interactivity -- The Forms -- The Database -- Navigable Space -- What Is Cinema? -- Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image -- The New Language of Cinema. Mark Tribe -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

0262133741 (hc. : alk. paper) 0262632551

00057882

GBA1-24487


Mass media--Technological innovations.

P96.T42 / M35 2002

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