Considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking's analogue era. In the process, this book raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a pixel-generated digital medium whose scenes often defy the laws of physics.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction                                                                                                                           
1. Cinema as Construction: Then and Now                                                                              
2. Reasons for Realism                                                                                    
3. Cheating Physics                                                                                        
4. Beyond Cinema                                                                                         
5. Everywhere and Nowhere                                                                         
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index