num_pages: 312
description: In the late 1960s, the cinema was pronounced dead. Television, like a Biblical Cain had slain his brother Abel. Some thirty years later, a remarkable rarely has the cinema been more popular. And yet, rarely has the cinema's future seemed more uncertain. Cinema Cain, Abel or Cable? presents a careful and forceful argument about predictions that tend to be made when new technologies appear. Examining the complex dynamics of convergence and divergence among the audio-visual media, the authors are realistic in their estimate of the future of the cinema's distinctive aesthetic identity, and robustly optimistic that the different social needs audiences bring to the public and domestic media will ensure their distinctiveness, as well as the necessary openness of cultural meaning and creative imput. The chief contributors include producers, historians, critics and journalists from several countries, creating a lively volume, rich in information and case studies, useful to media students and film scholars, as well as to anyone interested in better understanding the momentous changes transforming our worlds of sound and image.
language: English
title: Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable?: The Screen Arts in the Digital Age
titlecomplete: Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable?: The Screen Arts in the Digital Age (Film Culture in Transition)
genres: Film
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Amsterdam University Press