Beyond Spatial Montage
Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space

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Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema, as well as studio-based research, here media artist and theorist Michael Betancourt critiques cinematic realism and spatial montage in motion pictures. This new taxonomic framework for conceptualizing linkages between media art and narrative cinema opens new areas of experimentation for today’s film editors, motion designers, and other media artists.
About the Author:
Michael Betancourt, Ph.D. is an artist, historian, theorist, and professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. He is the author of The Manifesto, The History of Motion Graphics, and The Critique of Digital Capitalism. Michael has exhibited internationally, and his work has been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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