Cinema and/as convergence

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  • William Brown Professor de Cinema do Department of Media, Culture and Language da University of Roehampton, Londres.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v6n1.478

Keywords:

Convergence, hierarquisation, non-cinema

Abstract

Considering that we are living in an age of convergences – the technological convergence around the screen, and the spatial and temporal convergence that we see in terms of film content – I wish to argue today that these are based upon a more fundamental convergence, which is the convergence of the world in cinema. Furthermore, I shall argue that this convergence is itself predicated upon an ongoing ideology of divergence, of division, of separation, and of hierarchisation. In short, cinema continues to be business as usual. But perhaps more importantly, business as usual is increasingly becoming cinema.

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Author Biography

William Brown, Professor de Cinema do Department of Media, Culture and Language da University of Roehampton, Londres.

 Professor de Cinema do Department of Media, Culture and Language  da University of Roehampton , Londres. Autor de Supercinema: Film Philosophy for the Digital Age  (2013); co-autor de Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe  (2010); co-organizador de Deleuze and Film  (2012). Dirigiu En Attendant Godard  (2009), Afterimages  (2010), Common Ground  (2012) e China: A User’s Manual  (Films) (2012).

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Published

2018-05-13

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): REBECA 11

Section

Dossier

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