Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
Botler’s evaluation of developments in narrative forms is interesting- but I believe it is also generative to recall Barthes’ The Structuralist Activity to understand how myths are repurposed and narratives conveyed. In games such as Doom, interactivity is promoted and events adhere to a kind of flow that the user participates in. However, Doom and [...]
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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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