The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium

Paula Albuquerque

doi:10.1017/9789048536733

All the world's a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities. This footage, allegedly documentary, recreates cities as cinematic environments as people interact with the multitudes of cameras and screens around them. Paula Albuquerque's original research and experimental films, presented in this groundbreaking book, expose fictionalising elements in archival webcams and explore video surveillance as an urban condition that influences both perceptions of the past and visions of the future.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Ackowledgments
pp 7-8

Introduction
pp 9-28

1 - Video Surveillance versus the Affected Personal Cam
pp 29-56

2 - Post-Panopticism and the Attention Economy
pp 57-90

3 - From Cinematographic to Cinematic Apparatus
pp 91-126

4 - Cinematic Chronotopes : The Temporality of the Cinematic Mode of Existence of the Webcams
pp 127-148

5 - Webcams and the Archive
pp 149-180

6 - Appropriating the Cinematic Apparatus
pp 181-210

Conclusion
pp 211-220

Bibliography
pp 221-226

List of Images
pp 227-228

Index of Authors
pp 229-230

Index of Makers
pp 231-232

Index of Subjects / Artworks
pp 233-238

Film Culture in Transition
pp 239-244

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