Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
“We all know that it is a grave mistake to begin the design of a game — except point-and-click adventures — with a story. What is less well-known is that it is ALSO a grave mistake to begin the design of a game with internal mechanics. Devotees of the anti-narrative cult are often guilty of this. Both are evidence of the most mortal sin of all: thinking about the game rather than the player.” Ernest W. Adams
Fri, March 16 2012 » futurecinema2_2012
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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“Sin on sinners!” – Member of the clergy in the Cult of the Anti-narrative.