From IBM to MGM
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From IBM to MGM

Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

From IBM to MGM

Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age

About this book

Andrew Utterson's unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer were represented in films such as Lang's Desk Set, Godard's Alphaville, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Crichton's Westworld.

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Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781844573233
eBook ISBN
9781838715878

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. [1] Computers in the Workplace: IBM and the ‘Electronic Brain’ of Desk Set (1957)
  7. [2] From the Scrapheap to the Science Lab: The Pioneers of Computer Animation
  8. [3] Tarzan vs IBM: Humans and Computers in Alphaville (1965)
  9. [4] Digital Harmony: The Art and Technology Movement
  10. [5] ‘I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That’: Artificial Intelligence in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  11. [6] Expanded Consciousness, Expanded Cinema: A Techno-Utopian Counterculture
  12. [7] To See Ourselves as Androids See Us: The Pixel Perspectives of Westworld (1973)
  13. Conclusion
  14. Filmography
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. List of Illustrations
  18. eCopyright

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