''Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age'' is a 2013
film-philosophy
''Film-Philosophy'' is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering the engagement between film studies and philosophy. The editor-in-chief is David Sorfa.
See also
* Linguistic film theory
Linguistic film theory''The Dualist'Vols. 1– ...
academic textbook by
William Brown, Senior Lecturer in Film, and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the School of Arts at the
University of Roehampton,
London, United Kingdom.
Production
The book was published by
Berghahn Books in 2013.
Synopsis
''Supercinema'' combines philosophy of film,
film theory
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...
, and
psychology of film
The psychology of film is a sub-field of the psychology of art that studies the characteristics of film and its production in relation to perception, cognition, narrative understanding, and emotion. A growing number of psychological scientists and ...
with scientific principles to fundamentally attempt to explain a deeper reality. The book delves into
cognitive
Cognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thought, ...
aspects of a hidden, potentially profound meaning behind the fabric of the film medium.
And that analogue cinema is
Clark Kent
Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and publish ...
hiding Supercinema. And that Supercinema will take us into a new realm of cinema and what it can do.
Supercinema discusses
convergent digital cinema. And that total cinema would involve no editing and little meaningful narrative. And would include single-take films and long-take films, and that single shots allow us to rethink perspective, and reconceptualize the
frame.
Brown implies that there is an imminent new age of cinema coming, ''Supercinema''.
Critical reception and influence
The book has been described as "challenging" by Francesco Sticchi.
[{{Cite journal , last=Sticchi , first=Francesco , date=2015-10-02 , title=Supercinema: Film-Philosophy For the Digital Age , url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2015.1061408 , journal=New Review of Film and Television Studies , language=en , volume=13 , issue=4 , pages=452–456 , doi=10.1080/17400309.2015.1061408 , s2cid=194406790 , issn=1740-0309]
The concepts put forward in the book are further advanced in
Paul Virilio's 2016 book ''Drone Age Cinema.''
References
2013 non-fiction books
Aesthetics books
Berghahn Books books
External links
Publisher's official webpage