A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.
In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself.
A compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.
A radical approach to film viewing
Earlier versions of portions of this book were delivered as talks sponsored by the Affective Publics Reading Group at the University of Chicago, by the film and media departments at Goldsmiths College, Anglia Ruskin University, ...
In Media Heterotopias Hye Jean Chung challenges the widespread tendency among audiences and critics to disregard the material conditions of digital film production.
Ideology and Neo-noir: Political Discourses and the Cinematic Mode of Production in Hollywood Cinema
economy of bodily communication and control.3 Mitchell points us in the right direction here. Even if cloning and some of the radical forms of body-machine fusion that many science fiction films depict still feel distant from everyday ...
- Agnes Petho, Professor of Film Studies, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania "With a rare combination of depth and range, LĂșcia Nagib reframes the debate about realism in cinema by connecting it with a world cinema framework ...
A top Soviet filmmaker discusses the art of making movies, the growing bureaucracy of the Russian film industry, and the purpose of cinema
Including discussion of films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Devils on the Doorstep, Suzhou River, Beijing Bicycle, Millennium Mambo, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and Hollywood Hong Kong, the book emphasizes the transnational ...