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Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Jan 10, 2025

Marina Hassapopoulou, an Assistant Professor at NYU and founder of several collaborative initiatives, takes listeners on a deep dive into the world of interactive cinema. She discusses how innovative storytelling confronts traditional filmmaking ethics. Exploring topics like 'viewser' roles, procedural spectatorship, and sensory engagement, she examines audience participation's impact on narratives. Additionally, she reflects on the hybrid methodologies needed for film studies in the digital age, encouraging creativity and innovation in this evolving landscape.

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The podcast explores how interactive cinema redefines audience roles, transforming passive viewers into active participants within narratives.

It emphasizes the significance of context in understanding forgotten media forms, shedding light on their historical impact and accessibility issues.

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Intro

2min

Exploring Interactive Cinema

14min

Reimagining Film Studies in the Digital Age

4min

Exploring the Roles of Viewers and Users in Interactive Cinema

3min

Exploring Sensory Cinema and Interactivity

29min

Exploring Procedural Spectatorship

4min

Innovating Interactive Media

8min

Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional approaches throughout the history of motion pictures to offer insight into a range of largely ephemeral and site-specific projects that consciously assimilate viewers into their production. Through an exploration of radically inventive approaches to the medium, many of which emerged out of socio-political crises and periods of historical transition, Interactive Cinema works to by considering it in both technological and phenomenological terms.

Author Marina Hassapopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is also the interim director of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. She is the founder of open-source and collaborative initiatives including: Interactive Media Archive, ExpressiveAI.net, and Weird Wave Archive.

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