{"product_id":"dreaming-of-cinema-adam-lowenstein-9780231166560","title":"Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media","description":"Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of \"new\" media have made theatrical cinema seem \"old.\" A sense of \"cinema lost\" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. Returning to their interpretation of film's aesthetics and function, this book reads the writing, films, and art of Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, André Breton, André Bazin, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, and Joseph Cornell and recognizes their significance for the films of David Cronenberg, Nakata Hideo, and Atom Egoyan; the American remake of the Japanese \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); and a YouTube channel devoted to Rock Hudson. Offering a positive alternative to cinema's perceived crisis of realism, this innovative study enriches the meaning of cinematic spectatorship in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Lowenstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231166567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231166560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/06\/2015 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2015 pg. 1506","brand":"Adam Lowenstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48135949648127,"sku":"9780231166560","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_623ac43b-40f3-4fb2-8a04-58a451076835.jpg?v=1770159515","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dreaming-of-cinema-adam-lowenstein-9780231166560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}