Film, cinema, television … media?

Abstract

What is left for film studies if we strip away narrative, representation, and the dominant practices of institutional cinema? Is there an essence or medium specificity to study, or might we instead simply focus on the contingent permutations that film and other media undergo, this time in the digital age? Using the intertwined histories of film, cinema, and television, this paper renders contingent their normative definitions and provides a way to rethink their study in a time of transition.