Synthetic Cinema The 21st-Century Movie Machine
In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "synthetic cinema." He details how movies over the last two decades have fundamentally abandoned traditional filmmaking values
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Synthetic Cinema
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Synthetic Cinema The 21st-Century Movie Machine
Wheeler Winston Dixon Department of English University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-12570-7 ISBN 978-3-030-12571-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12571-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019930711 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Melisa Hasan This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
Brief portions of this text originally appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, in the articles “Synthetic Cinema: Mainstream Movies in the 21st Century,” “‘Service Providers’: Genre Cinema in the 21st Century,” “Kelly Reichardt—Working Against the Grain,” and “Slaves of Vision: The Virtual Reality World of Oculus Rift.” My sincere thanks to David Sterritt, editor of QRFV, for permission to include these materials here. I also want to thank Linda Lotz for a superb copyediting job and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster for her continued support and advice in all my work. My additional thanks to Anna-Marie Larsen for her help with the manuscript in its final stages. This particular book is dedicated to Michael Thomas Downey, who has been a friend and colleague since the late 1960s, and whose own tastes as a cineaste are very much in line with my own.
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Contents
1 Synthetic Cinema: Leaving the Real World 1 2 Service Providers: Form Over Content 25 3 Slaves of Vision: The VR World 41 4 The 21st-Century Movie Machine 55 Works Cited 77 Index 83
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CHAPTER 1
Synthetic Cinema: Leaving the Real World
Abstract What precisely is “synthetic cinema”? It’s filmmaking that’s motivated by the pro
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