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Analysis explores the decay of cinema and the death of film, suggesting a nuanced view of their future.
The main topics I seek to address in this paper are the decay of cinema, of which the death of film is just one part, the loss of the filmic due to an imposed takeover by digital processes, and the relationship between these two trends. I will attempt to put these topics in perspective (historically and artistically) to illustrate that the current doom thinking represents a limited outlook on the future of cinema, although I agree that we should be concerned about the future of film. I will start by making distinctions between “film,” “cinema,” and “movies,” to clarify the terms of debate.
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