The End of Cinema – A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age

Taken from the article “Supernova” in the French-language online encyclopedia Wikipédia.

Bellour, La querelle des dispositifs, 14.

Ibid.

Aumont, Que reste-t-il du cinéma?, 22.

Philippe Dubois, “Présentation, in Elena Biserna, Philippe Dubois, and Frédéric Monvoisin, eds., Extended Cinema/Le cinéma gagne du terrain (Pasian di Prato: Campanotto Editore, 2010), 13. Text repeated on the back cover.

Dubois, “Introduction/Présentation,” in Alessandro Bordina, Philippe Dubois and Lucia Ramos Monteiro, eds., Oui, c’est du cinéma/Yes, It’s Cinema, 7.

Ibid., 7–8.

Bellour, La querelle des dispositifs, 14. Emphasis in the original. This text is repeated (without italics) on the book’s back cover. The reader will remark that in addition to the “apparatus dispute” we are witnessing a veritable back-cover dispute!

Statement by David Lynch, “David Lynch on iPhone,” YouTube video, 0:30, filmed interview, posted by “Brittney Gilbert,” on January 4, 2008. The statement can also be found in the DVD bonus material for the film Inland Empire entitled “David Lynch’s Inland Empire” (2007).

Aumont, Que reste-t-il du cinéma?, 12. Our emphasis.

Dubois, “Présentation,” in Elena Biserna, Philippe Dubois and Frédéric Monvoisin, eds., Extended Cinema/Le cinéma gagne du terrain, 13. This text recurs on the back cover.

Released on January 7, 2013, the book was in fact published in the final quarter of 2012.

In our joint paper presented at the conference “The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference,” organized by Andrew Shail (Newcastle University, Newcastle, Great Britain, July 2011). See André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion, “Measuring the ‘Double Birth’ Model Against the Digital Age,” Early Popular Visual Culture 11, no. 2 (2013): 158–77.

Clifford Coonan, “Greenaway Announces the Death of Cinema—And Blames the Remote-Control Zapper,” The Independent, October 10, 2007.

The best definition of VJing we have found is that on Wikipedia (our apologies!): “VJing is a broad designation for realtime visual performance. Characteristics of VJing are the creation or manipulation of imagery in realtime through technological mediation and for an audience, in synchronization to music.” With respect to the use of Wikipedia, we can console ourselves with this comment by Michel Serres: “Do you know that there are slightly fewer mistakes on Wikipedia than there are in the Universalis encyclopedia?”