"In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database."--Book cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
What is new media? How media became new ; Principles of new media ; What new media is not The interface. The language of cultural interfaces ; The screen and the user The operations. Menus, filters, plug-ins ; Compositing ; Teleaction The illusions. Synthetic realism and its discontents ; The synthetic image and its subject ; Illusion, narrative, and interactivity The forms. The database ; Navigable space What is cinema? Digital cinema and the history of a moving image ; The new language of cinema.