2008, ISBN: 9780262062527

US: The MIT Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine re… Altro …

US: The MIT Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Honorable Mention, 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. and 2007 Winner of the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award at University of Southern California. As we spen d more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices--"windows" full of moving images, texts, an d icons--how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metapho r, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized real ity we see on the screen. In De pictura (1435), Leon Battista Alberti famously instructed painters to consider the frame of the painting as an open window. Taking Alberti's metaphor as her starting point, Friedberg tracks shifts in the perspectival paradigm as she gives us histories of the architectural window, developments in glass and transparency, and the emerging apparatuses of photography, cinema, television, and digital imaging. Single-point perspective--Alberti's metaphorical window--has long been challenged by modern painting, modern architecture, and moving-image technologies. And yet, notes Friedberg, for most of the twentieth century the dominant form of the moving image was a single image in a single frame. The fractured modernism exemplified by cubist painting, for example, remained largely confined to experimental, avant-garde work. On the computer screen, however, where multip., The MIT Press, 2006, 3<

2006, ISBN: 9780262062527

Hard cover, Gebraucht, This is a USED book, it is subject to external and interior wear including, underlining, highlighting, annotations, water damage, minor scuffs and tears. This is a … Altro …

Hard cover, Gebraucht, This is a USED book, it is subject to external and interior wear including, underlining, highlighting, annotations, water damage, minor scuffs and tears. This is a donated book accepted as is. Stickers and sticker residue on the cover should be expected, as well as spine wear from use. There are NO codes or disc(s) included. All items ship Monday-Friday within 2-3 business days. Thank you for supporting Goodwill of OC. , [PU: MIT Press (MA)]<

2006, ISBN: 0262062526

[EAN: 9780262062527], Gebraucht, [PU: Mit Pr], Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-libra… Altro …

[EAN: 9780262062527], Gebraucht, [PU: Mit Pr], Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library., Books<

ISBN: 9780262062527

The MIT Press. Collectible - Like New. First edition copy. Collectible - Like New. Very Good dust jacket., The MIT Press, 5

2006, ISBN: 9780262062527

Hard cover, Signs of wear and consistent use., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: MIT Press (MA)]