Film after film, or, what became of 21st-century cinema? / J. Hoberman.

A provocative essay by a senior film critic at The Village Voice considers the legitimacy of a distinctive 21st-century cinema that reflects new digital technology and revolutionary political and historical changes, in a full-length analysis based on the author's much-discussed Artforum article.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoberman, J.
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2012.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > History > 21st century.
Motion pictures > Reviews.
Digital media > Philosophy.
Genre:
Reviews.
Physical Description:ix, 294 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A post-photographic cinema. The myth of "the myth of total cinema"
  • The matrix: "a prison for your mind"
  • The new realness
  • Quid est veritas: the reality of unspeakable suffering
  • Social network
  • Postscript: total cinema redux
  • A chronicle of the Bush years. 2001: after September 11
  • 2002: the war on terror begins
  • 2003: invading Iraq
  • 2004: Bush's victory
  • 2005: looking for the Muslim world
  • 2006: September 11, the anniversary
  • 2007: what was Iraq and where?
  • 2008: the election
  • Notes toward a syllabus. In praise of love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
  • Avalon (Mamoru Oshii, 2001)
  • Avant-garde goes digital: Corpus callosum, Cotton Candy, and Razzle Dazzle
  • Russian ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)
  • Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
  • Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2002)
  • Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2003)
  • The world (Jia Zhangke, 2004)
  • Battle in heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005)
  • The death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
  • Day night day night (Julia Loktev, 2006)
  • Southland tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
  • Inland empire (David Lynch, 2006)
  • Between darkness and light (after William Blake) (Douglas Gordon, 1997/2006)
  • Lol (Joe Swanberg, 2006)
  • Flight of the red balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007)
  • Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
  • Opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics (August 8, 2008)
  • Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
  • The strange case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)
  • Once upon a time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011).