Andrew Utterson

From IBM to MGM

Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Utterson's unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer were represented in films such as Lang's Desk Set, Godard's Alphaville, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Crichton's Westworld.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781844573233
• ISBN-10: 1844573230
• Artikelnr.: 32418410

Autorenporträt

Andrew Utterson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
Computers in the Workplace: IBM and the 'Electronic Brain' of Desk Set (1957).
From the Scrap
Heap to the Science Lab: The Pioneers of Computer Animation.
Tarzan vs. IBM: Humans and Computers in Alphaville (1965).
Digital Harmony: The Art and Technology Movement.
'I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That': Artificial Intelligence in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Expanded Consciousness, Expanded Cinema: A Techno
Utopian Counterculture.
To See Ourselves as Androids See Us: The Pixel Perspectives of Westworld (1973).
Conclusion.
Filmography.
Bibliography.
Index.