Cult cinema and technological change
Cult cinema and technological change
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邪教电影和技术变革
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10.1080/17400309.2014.989007
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2015
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0.8
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Hills M
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Hills M
In this special issue of the New Review of Film and Television Studies we have brought together a number of papers that explore the identities and discourses of cult cinema and technological change. Cinema itself is a medium which has gone through a series of historically important technological developments, such as the transition to sound cinema, the widescreen ‘revolution’, and the move to digital. Cult cinema also has been marked by an interest in how technologies impact upon the field, though the majority of technology-focused research in the area has tended to reflect on emergent technological developments; historical investigation of technological change has featured less centrally. As a result, in this special issue we include a number of historically focused papers as well as ruminations on more recent developments. Two very broad topics that have captured the attention of cult cinema scholars are home video and the increased networking opportunities afforded by the Internet. These are both areas which contain sub-categories: home video, for example, includes video tape, DVD and Blu-ray, and video-on-demand technologies, to name some prominent examples; whilst networking technologies subsume a large range of activities and processes, so much so that web studies–itself only a subset of Internet studies–has already seen a separation between ‘web 1.0’and ‘web 2.0’to mark the significant changes that have taken place. Fan studies in particular has witnessed a range of research into the activities of ‘digital fandom’using social media (see, eg Booth 2010; Duffett 2013), as well as addressing how commodified cult has been branded, marketed, and sold online in the web 2.0 era (Geraghty 2014; Walker 2014), how always-on, 24/7 media have enabled new fan-cultural relationships to temporality and ‘spoilers’(Gwynne 2014; Hills 2012), and how the shift to web 2.0 has impacted on fan communities (Bennett 2014; Hills 2013). Despite some preceding historical uses of the phrase, the phenomenon of cult cinema arguably came of age in the 1970s, with academic coverage beginning in the 1980s (Austin 1981; Eco 1986). Early academic analyses of cult cinema were concerned with exploring the ritual nature of repeat performances in public theatres, though this was also a period in which home video was taking off and beginning to open up new ways by which films could become cultified. Video culture reconfigured the ways by which viewers could form attachments to films: previously, people tended to encounter a film fleetingly at the theatre, but most viewers were not able to own the film as a physical object (though they could possess physical memorabilia associated with a film). Video enabled people to q 2014 Taylor & Francis
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