Digital Cinema

Cinema has evolved into incredibly complex and alluring medium, involving the art and science of capturing the moving image and the craft of sound design. The author being a cinephile presents in this book a concise introduction in the broadest context to the art and craft of motion picture, and the emergence of digital cinema. Cinema for us is more like a book to be read with love, attention, and interest. The book integrates unique insights on the power of cinema, the poetics of cinema, the triumph of cinema, the business of cinema, and the future of cinema. Celluloid is material and its mysteries are revealed in the impact of light on matter, digital is immaterial and its secrets are expressed through the mysterious language of Ones and Zeros. Now, everywhere we look, there are moving images, many of us carry a screen with us at all times, and the impact of this on human consciousness is still unclear. Much of the discussion in this book begins and ends with questions about streaming platforms, and theatrical exhibitions.