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This book examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialised reality seen on the screen.
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357 pp., ISBN: 0262062526 US34.95 (hard cover. As we spend more time staring at TVs and computers - windows full of moving images, texts, and icons - how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. Evaluating the theories of Jameson, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and others, she adds critical insights about the role of gender and gender mobility in the configurations of consumer culture.Ī strikingly original work, Window Shopping challenges many of the existing assumptions about what exactly postmodern is. The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft20077Anne Friedberg. Taking Alberti's metaphor as her starting point. Modernism, Cinema and Technology, The Emergence of Cinematic Time. Explorations in Film Theory, Close Up: Cinema And.
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In De pictura (1435), Leon Battista Alberti famously instructed painters to consider the frame of the painting as an open window. The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft Anne Friedberg on FREE shipping on qualifying offers. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences-photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments-anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging "virtual reality" technologies.Ĭomparing the visual practices of shopping, tourism, and film-viewing, Friedberg identifies the experience of "virtual" mobility through time and space as a key determinant of postmodern cultural identity. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized reality we see on the screen. From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on todays cinema, television, and computer screens: a cultural history of the metaphoric, literal, and virtual window. Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. Get FREE shipping on The Virtual Window by Anne Friedberg, from.