Icons and Emoticons: Screen Wars
Description
The cinema is being upstaged by a device paradoxically meant (in part) to transmit it: the iPhone. How do films change, how is their impact altered, when viewed on these devices? What aspects of the movie screen (and subsequently our movie experience) are lost or threatened when they are displaced by this new technological format? This is not an abstract war: it is going on (in the dark) every time we attend a screening. My paper will explore what is at stake in our decision to illuminate our faces with a light other than the one shining from the movie screen and investigate what part of us (our brains, our souls) that is implicated in using the phone (our "contacts" we text during projections) rather than undergoing the film screen. I will also address how contemporary movies utilize the iPhones, how they advertise and promote them.
Location
STEW214AB
Start Date
9-24-2015 4:30 PM
DOI
10.5703/1288284315984
Icons and Emoticons: Screen Wars
STEW214AB
The cinema is being upstaged by a device paradoxically meant (in part) to transmit it: the iPhone. How do films change, how is their impact altered, when viewed on these devices? What aspects of the movie screen (and subsequently our movie experience) are lost or threatened when they are displaced by this new technological format? This is not an abstract war: it is going on (in the dark) every time we attend a screening. My paper will explore what is at stake in our decision to illuminate our faces with a light other than the one shining from the movie screen and investigate what part of us (our brains, our souls) that is implicated in using the phone (our "contacts" we text during projections) rather than undergoing the film screen. I will also address how contemporary movies utilize the iPhones, how they advertise and promote them.
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