April 18, 2008
Celluloid Under Siege
The future of film studies after the digital deluge
From 1895, the traditional date for the birth of cinema as we know it (that is, the projection of celluloid, in public space, for money — a racket first stumbled upon by Auguste and Louis Lumière in the basement of the Grand Café in Paris), until now, the 35mm photographic image has been the preferred canvas for motion-picture art. Through nickelodeon, movie palace, and multiplex mall, in silence, sound,
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