The State of Post-Cinema Gebunden

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street on planes and cars and new digital communication platforms of various kinds. The authors investigate how film has become more than cinema no longer a medium that is based on the photochemical recording and replay of movement. Most often the state of post-cinema is conceptualized from the high end of the most advanced technology discussions focus on performance capture an d digital 3-D 4-K projection and industrial light & magic. Here the authors' approach is focused on the low-end circulation of filmic images. This includes informal networks of exchange and transaction such as p2p-networks video platforms and so called ¿piracy¿ with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa where political and social transformations make new forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.