Database economy and transnational cinema
Cubitt, Sean (2009) Database economy and transnational cinema. Studies In Australasian Cinema, 3, (2), 155-166. (doi:10.1386/sac.3.2.155/1).
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Digital or electronic cinemas are dependent on a global regime of standards covering such features as aspect ratios, colour gamuts, screen resolution, and compression-decompression algorithms. These standards are worked out by a variety of intersecting organisations representing a variety of interests. This paper argues that such standardisation is isomorphic with the convergence of biopolitical and commodity forms in an emergent political economy that can be described as a database economy. This infrastructure of standards and ordering principles constitutes an actually existing transnational public sphere. The paper discusses the possibilities for developing an alter-globalising pubic sphere in digital cinemas, testing three possible avenues: cinemas of the silent majority, new modes of distribution, and content-driven approaches. It concludes by asking whether vanguard practices of building new forms of cinema apparatus may be essential to the construction of alter-globalising transnational cinemas.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1750-3175 (print) 1750-3183 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | digital, transnational, cinema, technology, alter-globalization, public sphere |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Art |
| Item ID: | 179827 |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Apr 2011 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:17 |
| Contributors: | Cubitt, Sean (Author) |
| Date: | December 2009 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/179827 |
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