FAMS 355 Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema: Moving Images in the Twenty-First Century

This course explores what moving images are in the twenty-first century. Since the late 1990s, roughly one hundred years after the invention of the first film camera, film fans, scholars, and archivists began lamenting the "death of cinema." The emergence of digital images seemed to threaten an entire century of film practice and the very foundation of film studies. If we no longer had physical film, so the argument goes, cinema was dead. Though scholars have never stopped announcing the death of cinema, moving images have expanded and proliferated wildly in the twenty-first century. In this course we will examine the new visual forms that arrive after the analogue era, how these images transform what we know of cinema, what losses or deaths accumulate, and what remains of the twentieth century. [H]

Prerequisite

class='sc-courselink' href='/en/2020-2021/catalog/courses/fams-film-and-media-studies/200/fams-220'>FAMS 220 or 221

Instructor

Groo