Cinema Over Generations

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Cinema continues to evolve with every passing generation. New ideas and conventions of cinema are birthed that help it assume a new or fresh outlook. However, debates continue to rage on as to what constitutes cinema and whether other media forms should be considered cinema. To this effect, Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau, through their book Cinematicity in Media History, analyze a term that continues to evoke a lot of discussions and disagreements as more people find new ways of describing or interpreting it. The term in question is cinematicity. Today, a lot of media is published that borrows heavily from cinema and other forms of art. For example, video games continue to command a huge following in the world, with millions of people around the world taking part in the movement. A video game like Grand Theft Auto happens to be one of the most popular games in the world. From the onset of the game, there is a lot of instances where films or TV shows appear to have been the inspiration, something that Geiger and Littau capture in their book. The authors note that their argument is founded on the belief that “all media, cinema included, are part of an ecology of intermedial borrowings, conjoinings and convergences.”[Geiger, Jeffrey, and Karin Littau, eds. Cinematicity in Media History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Accessed May 11, 2021. /stable/10.3366/j.ctt9qdrrf., 3]
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