The Language of New Media Lev Manovich MIT Press, 2001

In the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media, Manovich 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 shows how categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database, work with the more familiar conventions to make possible a new kind of aesthetic. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book - digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.

A classic Leonardo book.

Paperback

Index 354pp

Very good condition

Ex library with usual stamps and markings.