Shard Cinema

Evan Calder Williams

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Repeater Books
01 November 2018

Films, movies & cinema

Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades, and how they have changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. In a set of interrelated essays that range from the writings of early factory workers to the distributed sight of contemporary surveillance, Williams argues for deep links between the images we see and the hidden labors frozen into them, exploring how even the apparently trivial or spectacular carries unique opportunities to detect the processes and social frictions of their making. Spanning film, video games, radical history, architecture, visual effects, and war, the book crosses the twentieth century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that slowly took shape- the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and post-production, filmed and animated, material and digital. Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters, shaky riot footage, disaster photography, and early cinema, Williams leads us from the computer-generated ""shards"" of particles and debris to the broken phones screen on which we watch these digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between.

By: Evan Calder Williams
Imprint: Repeater Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 124mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 323g
ISBN: 9781910924914
ISBN 10: 1910924911
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evan Calder Williamsis a writer and artist. He is the author ofCombined and Uneven ApocalypseandRoman Letters, and his essays have appeared inFilm Quarterly,Mute,The New Inquiry,La Furia Umana,World Picture, andThe Journal of American Studies, amongst other publications. He is part of the editorial collective ofViewpoint Magazineand is a founding member of Thirteen Black Cats, a research and production collective for moving images. He teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

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