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Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age
• Author: Paolo Cherchi Usai
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780851708386
• ISBN: 0851708382
• ID: 04738074
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 153 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2001

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