Emobility and the New Cinema of Complexity
The ‘Cinema of Complexity’ describes the condition of film in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in which the form itself is no longer film as it was once understood, but a complex interaction of no longer mechanical production techniques and their attendant human readings and responses. ‘Post-digitalism’, a condition in which mobile technologies are at the fore, draws its discourse and its modes from a sense of space and time not necessarily connected with location. However, this is a technological revolution in which Europe has led the way. Its impact on European culture and European individuals is itself revolutionary, although it has so far been little discussed.
DVD Demystified
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Shoeless Joe: Fantasy and the Humor of Fellow-Feeling
In his essay on Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Thomas Carlyle writes of a humor that manifests itself in smile rather than laughter. "Richter is a man of mirth," says Carlyle, whose humor is "capricious . . . quaint . . . [and] heartfelt" (15). The three adjectives represent for Carlyle the essence of what he terms "true humor" because they suggest Richter's enormous respect for humanity. "True humor," he goes on to say, "springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper" (17). These smiles are not Hobbesian smirks of superiority1 but genuine signs of compassion for, sympathy toward, and empathy with the object of the humor. Carlyle further provides a direct link between humor and both pathos and nobility; the link is the smile of the caring man. For Carlyle, this smile is one of "fellow-feeling":