I thought readers of Screen-L might be
interested in this book.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MANGHF00.


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Jud


The Language of New Media

Lev Manovich


The MIT Press: March 2001. ISBN 0-262-13374-1.

352 pp., 55 illus. $34.95/=A323.95 (cloth).

A Leonardo Book


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.


Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory,
and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such
as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory
and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book.
Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories
of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in
cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film
and new media.


Lev Manovich (www.manovich.net) is an Associate Professor in the Visual
Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Born in
Moscow, he holds advanced degrees in cognitive psychology and visual
culture. He has been working with computer media since 1984 as an
artist, designer, animator, computer programmer, and teacher. His work
has been published in more than twenty countries, and he frequently
lectures on new media around the world.
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Donald F. Larsson
English Department, AH 230
Minnesota State University
Mankato, MN  56001

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