Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
In preparation for next week, Ian Bogost was mentioned in class and I said that I loved his work. Here’s a link to a blog post of his of which I am particularly fond. It discusses game studies and how messy video games can be to study. It’s pretty funny and worth a read.
http://bogost.com/writing/videogames_are_a_mess/
Enjoy!
-Sarah S.
Wed, October 21 2015 » future cinema 2015
This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.
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