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Finite Media(Reprint)
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (a Cultural Politics book)
by Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6292-0, ISBN: 0-8223-6292-9

"While digital media gives us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In "Finite Media" Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is thro ..."






Timeshift(1st Edition)
On Video Culture (Comedia)
by Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1991 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-01678-0, ISBN: 0-415-01678-9

"Focusing on the aesthetics of video, Timeshift tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing."






The Practice of Light(1st Edition)
A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels (Leonardo Book Series)
by Sean Cubitt, Roger F. Malina
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02765-6, ISBN: 0-262-02765-8

"Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century -- digital video, film, and photography -- through a history of ..."






Timeshift
on Video Culture
by Sean Cubitt
Hardcover, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-17691-1, ISBN: 1-138-17691-5






Aliens R Us
The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Hardback)
by Ziauddin Sardar, Sean Cubitt
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-1544-7, ISBN: 0-7453-1544-5

"Kirk. W. Junker. and. Robert. Duffy. As the story goes, Rene Descartes began a meditation (which ultimately brought him to believe in his own existence through doubt) by wondering how he could know that everyone else was real. How could he know that they were all not just part of his world only, like in a dream, a fictional world that ended when he woke? Generally, of course, we live our lives without asking this question. And even ..."






Videography
Video Media as Art and Culture (Communications and Culture)
by Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1993 by Palgrave
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-55556-9, ISBN: 0-333-55556-2






Digital Light
(Fibreculture Books)
by Nathaniel Tkacz, Daniel Palmer, Sean Cubitt, Professor Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Humanities Press Cic
ISBN-13: 978-1-78542-008-5, ISBN: 1-78542-008-9

"Digital Light brings together artists, curators, technologists and media archaeologists to study the historical evolution of digital light-based technologies. It provides a critical account of the capacities and limitations of contemporary digital light-based technologies and techniques by tracing their genealogies and comparing them with their predecessor media. Including accounts by prominent artists and professionals, the collection ..."






Relive
Media Art Histories (Leonardo Book Series)
by Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas, Zhang Ga, Brogan Bunt, Darren Tofts, Darko Fritz, Francesca Franco, Andres Burbano, Stephen Jones, Susan Ballard, John Conomos, Ross Harley, Douglas Kahn, Caroline Langill, Jens Hauser, Joanna Walewska, Martin Constable, Adele Tan, Leon Marvell, Rudy Rucker, Jon Cates, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Edward A. Shanken, Monika Gorska-Olesinska, Stelarc
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01942-2, ISBN: 0-262-01942-6

"In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of "new media" and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials of history -- the materials through which the past is mediated. Drawing on the tools of media archaeology and ..."






Finite Media
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (a Cultural Politics book)
by Sean Cubitt
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6281-4, ISBN: 0-8223-6281-3

"While digital media gives us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In "Finite Media" Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is thro ..."






Dryden Gooodwin Minigraph
by Sean Cubitt, Sophie Howarth
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Film & Video Umbrella
Import
ISBN-13: 978-1-904270-16-4, ISBN: 1-904270-16-6






Videography
Video Media as Art and Culture
by Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 1993 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-10296-8, ISBN: 0-312-10296-8

"Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. It provides a materialist account of video and computer media as they are practised and used today. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene. The remainder of the book is devote ..."






Ecomedia(1st Edition)
Key Issues (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability)
by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt
Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-78155-9, ISBN: 1-138-78155-X

"Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between med ..."






Ecomedia(1st Edition)
Key Issues (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability)
by Stephen Rust, Sean Cubitt, Salma Monani
Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-78153-5, ISBN: 1-138-78153-3

"Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and ..."






Rewind
British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s
by Stephen Partridge, Professor Sean Cubitt, Mr Sean Cubitt, Emile Shemilt, John Libbey Publishing
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by John Libbey Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-86196-706-3, ISBN: 0-86196-706-2






Imagery in the 21st Century
(The MIT Press)
by Oliver Grau, Thomas Veigl, Sean Cubitt, Martin Schulz, Eduardo Kac, Stefan Heidenreich, Olaf Breidbach, David Steinman, Dolores Steinman, James Elkins, Christa Sommerer Mignonneau, Marie-Luise Angerer, Peter Weibel, Adrian Cheok, Tim Otto Roth, Andreas Deutsch, Harald Kraemer, Lev Manovich, Martin Warnke, Martin Kemp, Jeremy Douglass
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52535-0, ISBN: 0-262-52535-6

"We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images s ..."






Dryden Goodwin
by Sophie Howarth, Sean Cubitt, Dryden Goodwin
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2003 by Film & Video Umbrella
Import
ISBN-13: 978-1-904270-04-1, ISBN: 1-904270-04-2

"Soft cover. Photographically illustrated French-fold wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Video, film, photographs and drawings by Dryden Goodwin. Essays by Sophie Howarth and Sean Cubitt. Includes a biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. 80 pp., with 21 black-and-white plates and 20 four-color plates and additional illustrations. 8-1/4 x 7-1/8 inches."






Studying the event film(1st Edition)
The Lord of the Rings
by Harriet Margolis, Sean Cubitt, Barry King, Thierry Jutel, Manchester University Press
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2012 by Manchester University Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7199-7, ISBN: 0-7190-7199-2

"Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical and financial success all over again. This comprehensive collection draws together twenty-five essays on the making, the meaning and the reception of The Lord of the Rings. There is a section on the business of the 'event film', critical chapters on techniques and meanings ranging from music ..."






Studying the event film(1st Edition)
The Lord of the Rings
by Harriet Margolis, Sean Cubitt, Barry King, Thierry Jutel
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2009 by Manchester University Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7198-0, ISBN: 0-7190-7198-4

"Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical and financial success all over again. This comprehensive collection draws together twenty-five essays on the making, the meaning and the reception of The Lord of the Rings. There is a section on the business of the 'event film', critical chapters on techniques and meanings ranging from music ..."






Aliens R Us
The Other in Science Fiction Cinema
by Ziauddin Sardar, Sean Cubitt, Pluto Press
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-1539-3, ISBN: 0-7453-1539-9

"Aliens R Us explores the global culture of science fiction cinema, and in particular its presentation of contemporary images of the Other. Taking as a starting point the popularity of international forms such as Japanese Manga and Hong Kong sci-fi, in addition to the success of films such as The Matrix and television series such as Deep Space Nine, the contributors examine the science fiction genre as an international, populist form of ..."






Green Light(1st Edition)
Toward an Art of Evolution (Leonardo Book Series)
by George Gessert, Roger F. Malina, Sean Cubitt
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2010 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01414-4, ISBN: 0-262-01414-9

"Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are prized for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become ..."



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