The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium

Paula Albuquerque

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Routledge
01 December 2025

Humanities; Media studies

Series: Film Culture in Transition

All the world’s a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities. This footage, allegedly documentary, recreates cities as cinematic environments as people interact with the multitudes of cameras and screens around them. Paula Albuquerque’s original research and experimental films, presented in this groundbreaking book, expose fictionalising elements in archival webcams and explore video surveillance as an urban condition that influences both perceptions of the past and visions of the future.

By: Paula Albuquerque
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041189374
ISBN 10: 1041189370
Series: Film Culture in Transition
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Video Surveillance versus the Affected Personal Cam, 2. Post-Panopticism and the Attention Economy, 3. From Cinematographic to Cinematic Apparatus, 4. Cinematic Chronotopes: The Temporality of the Cinematic Mode of Existence of the Webcams, 5. Webcams and the Archive, 6. Appropriating the Cinematic Apparatus, Afterword, Conclusion, Bibliography, List of Images, Index of Authours, Index of Makers, Index of Subjects/Artworks

Dr Paula Albuquerque is a scholar and an artist who teaches at the University of Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She published articles in Necsus Journal, and in the forthcoming book Experimental Glitch, Bloomsbury. She showed films and other art work at, among others, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and International Film Festival Rotterdam.