[Commlist] New book: Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation

INTERACTIVE CINEMA: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation

By Marina Hassapopoulou

University of Minnesota Press | 328 pages | June 25, 2024

ISBN 978-1-5179-1522-3 | Paper | $30.00

Electronic Mediations Series


Interactive Cinema explores cinematic practices that work to transform 
what is often seen as a primarily receptive activity into a 
participatory, multimedia experience. Surveying a multitude of 
unorthodox approaches throughout the history of motion pictures, Marina 
Hassapopoulou offers insight into a range of largely ephemeral and 
site-specific projects that consciously assimilate viewers into their 
production.


Analyzing examples of early cinema, Hollywood B movies, museum and 
gallery installations, virtual-reality experiments, and experimental 
web-based works, Hassapopoulou travels across numerous platforms, 
highlighting a diverse array of strategies that attempt to unsettle the 
allegedly passive spectatorship of traditional cinema. Through an 
exploration of these radically inventive approaches to the medium, many 
of which emerged out of sociopolitical crises and periods of historical 
transition, she works to expand notions of interactivity by considering 
it in both technological and phenomenological terms.


Deliberately revising and expanding Eurocentric scholarship to propose a 
much broader, transnational scope, the book emphasizes the ethical 
dimensions of interactive media and their links to larger considerations 
around community building, citizenship, and democracy. By combining 
cutting-edge theory with updated conventional film studies 
methodologies, Interactive Cinema presses at the conceptual limits of 
cinema and offers an essential road map to the rapidly evolving 
landscape of contemporary media.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marina Hassapopoulou is assistant professor of cinema studies at New 
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.


For more information, visit the book's webpage:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/interactive-cinema
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