Beyond the Screen Emerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences

by Atkinson, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781623566371
• ISBN10: 1623566371
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-04-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 Broadcast 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. Her multi-screen interactive film Crossed Lines and her surround sound and hypersonic installation auditoryum have been exhibited internationally.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Theories & Context
1:1 Introduction
1.2 Theories
1:3 Context
Section 2: Processes
2:1 Pre-production
2:2 Production
2:3 Postproduction
Section 3: Aesthetics
3:1 On screen(s)
3:2 On line
3:3 Towards a multi-platform grammatology
Section 4: Audiences
4:1 Exhibition & Distribution
4:2 Transreality: From participation to immersion
4:3 The unwilling suspension of disbelief: ethics and transmedia literacy
Section 5: Conclusions
5.1 Conclusion & Future Forms