The "material function" in cinema
Resolving the paradox of the glitch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4739447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Betancourt (0000-0001-5775-1890, Savannah College of Art and Design, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 236-237 |
| Pages | 251-273 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2019-0006 |
| OpenAlex | W3095184945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Glitches pose expressive challenges for digital motion pictures. These problematics reveal a "material function" that determines their identification and prescribes their semantics on-screen. These issues of materiality are familiar from the ideological critiques of avant-garde film in the 1970s, but have not been explored in relation to the semiotics of digital cinema. Developing an understanding of these problematics shows the complex problematics of using glitches for critical and expressive purposes in motion pictures
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Glitch · Ideology · Indexicality · Linguistics · Literature · Materiality (auditing) · Movie theater · Political science · Relation (database) · Semantics (computer science) · Semiotics · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |