Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Pepita Hesselberth is assistant professor in cultural theory, film, and digital media at the Department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Cinematic Chronotopes (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the co-editor of two collected volumes on compact cinematic forms: Compact Cinematics (with Maria Poulaki; Bloomsbury 2017), and, as guest editor of Empedocles: Journal of Philosophy of Communication, on "Short Film Experience" (with Carlos Roos; 2015). Currently she is working on her project on Disconnectivity in the Digital Age, for which she received a grant from the Danish Council of Independent Research, and is appointed as a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

Maria Poulaki is Lecturer in Film and Digital Media Arts at University of Surrey, UK. Placing contemporary cinematics within the realm of complexity theory and neuroscience debates she has contributed to Screen, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Film-Philosophy, Cinema & Cie, Projections, and a number of edited volumes.