Film after Film: An Introduction to Digital Cinema

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"Is the age of Cinema over? This seminar explores work by historians, theorists, and filmmakers responding to this question. From debates over an emergent “post-cinematic” medium proposing a fundamental rupture with the classical cinema of the 20th century, to investigating works that suggest a continuity between the earlier analog cinema and its contemporary digital component, we will interrogate film form, history, and theory with an eye to placing these changes within their proper socio-political context. In doing so, we will place 21st century film culture within the global paradigm opened up by new modes of distribution theorized by digital, postcolonial, and transnational film scholars. In doing so we will ask: Is Netflix cinema? Has filmmaking collapsed into a heterogeneous media environment through the rise of the global internet? What distinguishes 21st century film language from what came before?"