The Language of New Media

Au: Lev Manovich

Pub: MIT Press

Yr: 2001

ISBN :0 262 63255 1

Chapters:

Prologue: Vertov's Dataset

Introduction

• A Personal Chronology
• Theory of the Present
• Mapping New Media: Method
• Mapping New Media; Organization
• The Terms: Language, Object, Representation

What is New Media?

• How Media Became New

• Principles of New Media

  1. Numerical Representation
  2. Modularity
  3. Automation
  4. Variability
  5. Transcoding

• What New Media is not

  • Cinema as New Media
  • The Myth of the Digital
  • The Myth of Interactivity

The Interface

• The Language of Cultural Interfaces

  • Cultural Interfaces
  • Printed Word
  • Cinema
  • HCI: Representation versus Control

• The Screen and the User

  • A Screen's Geneology
  • The Screen and the Body
  • Representation versus Stimulation

The Operations

• Menus, Filters, Plug-ins

  • The Logic of Selection
  • "Postmodernism" and Photoshop
  • From Object to Signal

• 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
  • Telecommunications
  • Distance and Aura

The Illusions

• Syntheic 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

  • George Melies, the Father of Computer Graphics
  • Jurassic Park and Socialist Realism
• Illusion, Narrative, and Interactivity

The Forms

• The Database

  • The Database Logic
  • Data and Algorithm
  • Database and Narrative
  • Paradigm and Syntagm
  • A Database Complex
  • Database Cinema:Greenaway and Vertov

• Navigable Space

  • Doom and Myst
  • The Poetics of Navigation
  • The Navigator and Explorer
  • Kino-Eye and Simulators
  • EVE and Place

What is Cinema?

• Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image

  • Cinema and the Art of the Index
  • A Brief Archeology of Moving Pictures
  • From Animation to Cinema
  • Cinema Redefined
  • From Kino-Eye to Kino-Brush

• The New Language of Cinema

  • Cinematic and Graphic: Cinegratography
  • The New Temporality: The Loop as a Narrative Engine
  • Spatial Montage and Macrocinema
  • Cinema as a Code

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