Cinema and technology:cultures, theories, practices.

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Biographical Notes Acknowledgements Introduction: B.Bennett, M.Furstenau& A.Mackenzie PART 1: FORMAT The Perilous Gauge: Canadian Independent Film Exhibition and the 16mm Mobile Menace P.Lester BMW Films and the Star Wars Kid: 'Early Web Cinema' and Technology A.Clay On Some Limits to Film Theory (Mainly From Science) J.Elkins PART 2: NORMS Socially Combustible: Panicky People, Flammable Films, and the Dangerous New Technology of the Nickelodeon P.Moore Cinema and its Doubles: Kittler vs. Deleuze J.Harris Genomic Science in Contemporary Film: Institutions, Individuals and Genre K.O'Riordan PART 3: SCANNING Cinema as Technology: Encounters with an Interface A.Wood Demonlover : Interval, Affect and the Aesthetics of Digital Dislocation M.Manojlovic 'Into the decor': Attention and Distraction, Foreground and Background C.Rodrigues Children, Robots, Cinephilia and Technophobia B.Bennett PART 4: MOVEMENT Lola and the Vampire: Technologies of Time and Movement in German Cinema M.Langford Inbetweening: Animation, Deleuze, Film Theory B.Schaffer Affective Troubles and Cinema M-L.Angerer Afterword: Digital Cinema and the Apparatus: Archaeologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies T.Elsaesser Bibliography Index