More than 100 yeras have passed since the invention of the Kinetograph and the Cinematographe. Where is the the cinematic medium heading for now?
1. The Cinematographe and 100 years of cinema: Some reasons why the Cinematographe spread so rapidly over the world at the beginning of this century.
2. Reproduced Cinema : As film is being reproduced by the other image-making media such as television, video and computer-graphics, the classic idea of cinema is changing.
3. Mixed Cinema : Now that a film image can be mixed with a different kind of image produced by, for example, electronic technology, some major themes in the film theory will probably change.
4. Quotation / Circulation / Manupilation : A steady increase in mixed and reproduced cinema is altering the one-way relationship between the image-maker and the image-reciever. The characteristics of this situation may be summarized by three words - quotation/circulation/manupilation.
5. Appraising the legacy of classic cinema. A reexamination of Japanese cinema is needed in order to place it within the history of world cinema.
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