The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18937-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albuquerque, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.