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@article{ART002935850},
author={Jihoon KIM},
title={Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies},
journal={Journal of Popular Narrative},
issn={1738-3188},
year={2023},
volume={29},
number={1},
pages={363-417},
doi={10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011}

TY - JOUR
AU - Jihoon KIM
TI - Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies
JO - Journal of Popular Narrative
PY - 2023
VL - 29
IS - 1
PB - The Association of Popular Narrative
SP - 363
EP - 417
SN - 1738-3188
AB - This paper positions Francesco Cassetti's 2015 book, The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come, within post-cinema studies. I define post-cinema studies as a set of scholarly approaches and discourses since the 1990s that have responded to the post-cinematic conditions: conditions in which the boundaries of normative have been dismantled and dynamically redrawn as its constitutive components, such as celluloid, lens-based imagery, single screen, projection, and the fixity of spectators, are changed by digital technologies and non-theatrical experiential platforms. Summarizing the tendencies of post-cinema studies as four keywords (material and form, platform, history, and philosophy), I argue that The Lumière Galaxy, based on its emphases on platform and history, demands us to consider the post-cinematic condition as a dual movement of cinema's persistence and change. On the one hand, Cassetti diagnoses the post-cinema conditions as a situation in which traditional cinematic experience, and the place and apparatus that constitute it, are undergoing unprecedented changes. On the other hand, he nevertheless stresses that such a shift provides an opportunity for rediscovery, reconstruction, and reinvention of the traditional cinema experience in other places and devices. In so doing, he challenges the so-called ‘death of cinema’ discourse, as well as its epistemological basis that posits the term post-cinema as marking a fundamental, periodizing break from cinema. In order to closely examine Cassetti's argument, this paper elucidates the seven keywords suggested by The Lumière Galaxy: relocation, relic/icon, assemblage, expansion, hypertopia, display, and performance. This leads to underline Cassetti's contribution to post-cinema studies.
KW - Post-cinema;cinema;Francesco Casetti;The Lumière Galaxy;relocation;platform;experience
DO - 10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011
ER -

Jihoon KIM. (2023). Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies. Journal of Popular Narrative, 29(1), 363-417.

Jihoon KIM. 2023, "Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies", Journal of Popular Narrative, vol.29, no.1 pp.363-417. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011

Jihoon KIM "Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies" Journal of Popular Narrative 29.1 pp.363-417 (2023) : 363.

Jihoon KIM. Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies. 2023; 29(1), 363-417. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011

Jihoon KIM. "Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies" Journal of Popular Narrative 29, no.1 (2023) : 363-417.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011

Jihoon KIM. Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies. Journal of Popular Narrative, 29(1), 363-417. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011

Jihoon KIM. Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies. Journal of Popular Narrative. 2023; 29(1) 363-417. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011

Jihoon KIM. Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies. 2023; 29(1), 363-417. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011

Jihoon KIM. "Cinema’s Change and Persistence - The Lumière Galaxy and Post-cinema Studies" Journal of Popular Narrative 29, no.1 (2023) : 363-417.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2023.29.1.011