Beyond the Screen Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences

by Atkinson, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781501308659
• ISBN10: 1501308653
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-11-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Runner-up for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2015

Beyond the Screen presents an expanded conceptualization of cinema which encompasses the myriad ways film can be experienced in a digitally networked society where the auditorium is now just one location amongst many in which audiences can encounter and engage with films. The book includes considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through numerous examples and case studies of recent and near-future developments.

Through analyses of narrative, text, process, apparatus and audience this book traces the metamorphosis of an emerging cinema and maps the new spaces of spectatorship which are currently challenging what it means to be cinematic in a digitally networked era.

Author Biography

Sarah Atkinson is Principal Lecturer in Principal Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Brighton, UK, and an audio-visual arts practitioner undertaking explorations into new forms of fictional and dramatic storytelling in visual and sonic media.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Extending Cinema
Chapter 3: Mobile Cinema
Chapter 4: Socially Layered Cinema
Chapter 5: The Ethics of Emerging Cinema
Chapter 6: The Business of Emerging Cinema
Chapter 7: The Grammar of Emerging Cinema
Chapter 8: Epilogue

Filmography

Bibliography

Index