The transparency of spectacle
Subtitle: meditations on the moving image
By: Wheeler Winston Dixon.
Series: The SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Motion pictures; Spectacular, The; Cinematography -- Special effects; Motion picture audiences -- Psychology
Description: While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema is inevitable, and even a necessary adjustment to the economic realities of end-of-the-millennium cinema production, Dixon argues that it represents a fundamental representational shift in the relationship between the spectator and the image-production apparatus of the cinematograph.

More than ever all visual input is merely raw material which is then subjected to digital "polishing" and "tweaking" until it attains a sheen of artificial splendor that is utterly removed from the photographic reproduction of the object and/or person originally photographed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.