The State of Post-Cinema ─ Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new digital communication platforms of various kinds. The authors investigate how film has become more than cinema, no longer a medium that is based on the photochemical recording and replay of movement. Most often, the state of post-cinema is conceptualized from the "high end" of the most advanced technology; discussions usually focus on performance capture and digital 3-D, 4-K projection and industrial light & magic. Here, the authors' approach is focused on the "low-end" of the circulation of filmic images. This includes informal networks of exchange and transaction, such as p2p-networks, video platforms, so called “piracy” with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa, where political and social transformations make new forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.

Vinzenz Hediger is a professor of cinema studies at Gothe Universitat Frankfurt. He is the founding editor of the Zeitschrift fur Medienwissenschaft?and one of the co-founders of the European Network of Cinema Studies (NECS).

Alena Strohmaier is a Research Fellow in the BMBF research network "Re-Configurations". She is currently a member of the NECS Steering Committee and in the editorial team of META Journal.