{"product_id":"postcinematic-vision-roger-f-cook-9781517907662","title":"Postcinematic Vision: The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Volume 54","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e offer a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media.\u003cp\u003eStarting with the argument that film viewing has long altered neural circuitry in our brains, Roger F. Cook proceeds to reevaluate film's origins, as well as its merger with digital imaging in the 1990s. His animating argument is that film has continually altered the relation between media and human perception, challenging the visual nature of modern culture in favor of a more unified, pan-sensual way of perceiving. Through this approach, he makes original contributions to our understanding of how mediation is altering lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Cook provides important reevaluations of well-known figures such as Franz Kafka, closely reading cinematic passages in the great author's work; he reassesses the conventional wisdom that Marshall McLuhan was a technological determinist; and he lodges an original new reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e. Full of provocative and far-reaching ideas, \u003ci\u003ePostcinematic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful work that helps us see old concepts anew while providing new ideas for future investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger F. Cook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517907667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517907662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Roger F. Cook","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088508301567,"sku":"9781517907662","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b2891ebf-3f47-4ce7-99f1-d4f069453cfb.jpg?v=1769105154","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postcinematic-vision-roger-f-cook-9781517907662","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}