New Cinemas: Film and Digital Media. Issue 1 (1st May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Navarro, Vinicius
• Is Part Of: Film studies. Volume 12:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 36
• Page End: 45
• Publication Date: 2015-05-01
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- History -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Periodicals; 791.43
• DOI: 10.7227/FS.12.0005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1469-0314

Abstract

Abstract : This article looks at contemporary film scholarship in order to address one of the discipline's pressing questions: the place of cinema in a context of rapid technological change. Rather than simply focus on technology, however, the article calls for a broad set of criteria to define what counts as cinema today. In particular, it revisits the concept of expanded cinema and treats filmmaking as an 'event' that combines the contexts of production and reception. Finally, the article insists on the relevance of film studies as a field that will continue to lead the debate on moving image media.