In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theoryof new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media culturesof the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of oldmedia, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new mediaworks create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. Healso analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface anddatabase.Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, andcomputer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as culturalinterface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinemaplay a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovichdiscusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digitalcinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties betweenavant-garde film and new media.

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