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Reality: Truth?..Digital cinema shifts truth from recording reality to…
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DIGITAL CINEMA
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History & Culture: Digital cinema reflects a fragmented, recycled sense of history under capitalism.
Nostalgia
postmodern art feeds on nostolgia, through its fragmentation of the past
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Postmodernism is described as the culture of late or multinational capitalism. For Fredric Jameson, it’s marked by the rise of pastiche—“blank parody” without real critism—where style becomes repetition rather than original commentary.
- Depth is replaced by surface, and the “death of the subject” signals the breakdown of stable identity or unified meaning.
- Art becomes increasingly remixed and recycled, drawing on existing forms instead of producing something new.
- Overall, postmodernism can be understood as expressing the inner logic of late capitalism itself: fragmentation, repetition, and what Jameson describes as a kind of schizophrenic experience of time and history.
Art: in a postmodern world, blurs high and low culture, relays a capitalist mindset,
- Warhol: performative flatness, reproduction with his technique of screen printing.
Velazquez's Las Meninas:
- Fragmentation of stable perspectives.
- this painting was created in 1656, before the postmodern, but it shares ideas of representation, perspective and fragmentation that the postmodern carries.
Post-cinema
Shane Denson: on post cinema... "that it grows, historically, out of theories of loss: the loss of the index, the end of celluloid, the demise of cinema as an institution.2 Against a backdrop of mourning and/or melancholia,"
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Denson’s idea of post-cinema being future-oriented but still stuck in cycles of repetition made me think about our class discussions about how much media today leans on nostalgia.
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Bamboozled (2000)
-Bamboozled shows the kinds of media repetition and circulation that post-cinema theory later describes
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Post-perceptual
- In post-cinema, images circulate, get edited, and mutated across platforms. That shift produces a post-perceptual condition where we’re often processing visuals too fast to fully register in real time. Digital speed produces an incoherent scene as more and more information gets added to the flow.
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Fragmentation of history
The Image Book (2010) - Goddard presents history as not a coherent narrative, but as a fragmented montage of images, sounds, and references. The past and present are constantly cut together and broken apart.
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