Table of contents for The virtual life of film / D. N. Rodowick.

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Contents
I. The Virtual Life of Film
1. Futureworld
2. The Incredible Shrinking Medium
3. Back to the Future
II. What Was Cinema?
4. Film Begets Video
5. The Death of Cinema and the Birth of Film Studies
6. A Medium in All Things
7. Automatisms and Art
8. Automatism and Photography
9. Succession and the Film Strip
10. Ways of Worldmaking
11. A World Past
12. An Ethics of Time
III. A New Landscape (without Image)
13. An Elegy for Film
14. The New ?Media?
15. Paradoxes of Perceptual Realism
16. Real Is as Real Does
17. Lost in Translation: Analogy and Index Revisited
18. Simulation, or Automatism as Algorithm
19. An Image That Is Not ?One?
20. Two Futures for Electronic Images, or What Comes after Photography?
21. The Digital Event
22. Transcoded Ontologies, or ?A Guess at the Riddle?
23. Old and New, or the (Virtual) Renascence of Cinema Studies
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Frame enlargement from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Frame enlargement from Jurassic Park (1993)
Man Ray, Self-portrait with camera (1931)
Rayography: Film strip and sphere (1922)
The Battle of Waterloo (ca. 1820)
Mathew Brady, Antietam Dead (1862)
The two camera set-ups of Num?ro z?ro (1971)
Two frame enlargements from Eloge de l?amour (2003)
Frame enlargement from Forrest Gump (1994)
The two ?worlds? of The Matrix (1999)
Frame enlargement from Arabesque (John Whitney, 1975)
Abu Ghraib documentation (2003)
Sam Taylor-Wood, Piet? (2001)
Raw data from Russian Ark (2002)
Frame enlargement from Russian Ark (2002)

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Photography -- Digital techniques.
Digital cinematography.