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

In order not to be lapidary and engage in approximation, we would need to undertake lengthy historical research (into movie theaters between 1910 and 1950), something that was impossible to carry out for the present volume.

Laurent Gervereau, Histoire du visuel au xxe siècle (2003), 34–35. Our emphasis.

The authors thank Marnie Mariscalchi of the Université de Montréal for bringing cloud computing, becoming more and more popular, to their attention. It will undoubtedly serve as an excellent storage “medium” for making accessible to users films once DVDs, perhaps, have disappeared from the surface of the earth.

Francesco Casetti, “Back to the Motherland: The Film Theatre in the Postmedia Age,” Screen 52, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 6.

Ibid.