Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," Andr Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digita[...]

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, Andre Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, Fro[...]