The Cinema Effect by Sean Cubitt

by Sean Cubitt

"It has been said that all cinema is a special effect. In this examination of time in film Sean Cubitt tries to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images and sounds that don't quite align with reality. What is it that cinema does? Cubitt proposes a history of images in motion from a digital perspective, for a digital audience." Students of film will find Cubitt's analysis of noncanonical films like Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as enlightening as his fresh takes on such classics as Renoir's Rules of the Game.

Paperback

First published February 13, 2004

About the author

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of several books, most recently, The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels.

Reviews

[Al Matthews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice.