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 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＂ circulation of filmic images. This includes informal networks of exchange and transaction, such as p2p-networks, video platforms and so called ＂piracy＂ with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa, where political and social transformations makenew forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.

Malte Hagener is professor for film at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Recent publications include Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture (2007), Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses(2010, with T. Elseasser) and The Emergence of Film Culture (2014, as editor).

Vinzenz Hediger is a professor of cinema studies at Gothe Universität Frankfurt. He is the founding editor of the Zeitschrift für 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.