Source:
journal of visual culture, SAGE Publishing, Volume Vol 1, Number 1, p.7-23 (2002)
Keywords:
convergence;
DMfield;
film;
DMx1
Abstract:
Abstract
This article examines how the convergence of various media impacts upon the
relations between film studies and visual studies. The questions raised are: How
did visual studies emerge as a discipline with film studies in its purview? How
does the digital, an aspect of late 20th-century visual culture which emerged
roughly simultaneously with visual studies, figure into the field? What happens
when film studies is embedded in or combined with visual studies? In
acknowledging that visual studies is an outcome of and a response to the
conditions of media convergence, this article ends by offering a sense of how
questions around optical virtuality and medical imaging can make sense of the
effects that media convergence is having on the conditions of experience and
subjectivity within modernity.
