The Virtual Life of Film

Over the years Rodowick has provided perhaps the most thorough readings and evaluations of contemporary, post-classical film theory any scholar has offered. The Virtual Life of Film offers his speculations about cinema's digital transformation. An important work, it raises vital issues...In the opening chapters Rodowick offers one of the most nuanced and complex descriptions of the photographic in cinema ever presented. -- Tom Gunning Film Comment 20070901 There is much to stimulate, provoke and argue within a book that successfully taps into the scholarly Zeitgeist. -- Ian Christie Times Higher Education Supplement 20080110