Essai

The Birth of a Notation

Myths and Histories of Digital Cinema

Enrico Terrone

Does the digital turn introduce a total discontinuity in the history of cinema? André Gaudreault and Philip Marion (2015) claim that it does and provide an argument in favour of such “total discontinuity” view. In this paper, I shall reject their argument by debunking one of its premises. I shall then consider an alternative perspective, the “continuity view” proposed by philosophers such as Berys Gaut (2010) and David Davies (2011), who argue that the digital turn does not break the...