TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connelly,Thomas J.
TI  - Capturing digital media: drive and desire in contemporary film and television 
SN  - 9781501345869 (hbk.) :
AV  - PN1992.75 
U1  - 791.45 CON 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Television
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Digital cinematography
KW  - Perfection
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
N2  - Why are filmmakers such as J.J. Abrams, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino continuing to shoot their movies on celluloid in the digital age of cinema? Are these filmmakers choosing the photochemical process of celluloid images purely for aesthetics purposes? Or could their preference for celluloid have something to do with analogue's intimate connection to the subject of lack and desire? 'Capturing Digital Media' examines the relationship between the perfection of the digital form and the imperfection of the human subject in recent film and television. Using a number of a key psychoanalytic terms and new media concepts, 'Capturing Digital Media' shows that the necessity of imperfection is where we locate the human subject of desire within the binary logic of the digital
ER  -