Old School

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Film in Remediation


The notion of how film continues to change is intriguing especially since more and more movies are integrating graphics into their movies. What Disney has been doing is interesting because they are remediating classic stories. Using animation, Disney can do more with this medium in terms of camera techniques and a movable shifting perspective than with actual film. Certainly, animation with Pixar had gone even further than Bolter and Grusin explain here. As these films continue to flourish in the industry, it is possible that actors careers might be in jeopardy because these characters are becoming more life-like. The new phenomena in recent films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland aim at a more in depth ideal of immediacy. What will the future hold in terms of what will be remediated? We can only wait and see.

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