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Author Topic: Book recommendations Anisa Shmiem Film Handler Posts: 3 From: England, United Kingdom Registered: Nov 2013 posted 04-07-2014 10:43 AM                     Hi all, I am currently writing my dissertation, my subject title is 'The cinematic future of 4k resolution and beyond; and it's relationship to traditional film negative shooting.' I am running low on academic references such as books and journals and would appreciate if anyone could direct me towards some! Your help would be greatly appreciated Many Thanks Anisa  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2014 10:49 AM                        I don't know any books, but you need to get rid of that apostrophe in "it's." And looking at it again, I'd say the semicolon would be better off being a comma. I'm no bookworm, but I do know punctuation!  |  IP: Logged Anisa Shmiem Film Handler Posts: 3 From: England, United Kingdom Registered: Nov 2013 posted 04-07-2014 12:17 PM                     Thank you for that, equally important to the books.  |  IP: Logged Jarod Reddig Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 513 From: Hays, Ks Registered: Jun 2011 posted 04-12-2014 11:20 PM                     If you haven't already watched it Keanu Reeves made a documentary a few years ago entitled "Side by Side", in which they talk of the demise of film and the impact digital will have on the future of film making. Maybe check that out.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 04-13-2014 01:15 AM                        If this is a doctoral dissertation, shouldn't you be conducting original research rather than simply collecting and collating what has already been done? Perhaps contacting folks who are involved in whatever aspect of this subject you're interested in would be a way to get new information for your thesis.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-13-2014 11:16 AM                        quote: Mike Blakesley I don't know any books, but you need to get rid of that apostrophe in "it's." I'm relieved to discover that I'm not the only one for whom apostrophe abuse causes an immediate increase in blood pressure! Frank: Many undergraduates in the UK do something called a "dissertation" in their final year, which is effectively an extended essay (typically 10-15k words) that discusses a given research topic using mainly secondary sources. I'm guessing that this is what we're talking about here. Confusingly, the final output submitted by a doctoral student in the British system is still referred to as a thesis rather than a dissertation by many people, even though in strict technical terms the thesis is really the argument or research discovery, whereas the dissertation is the written form in which it's communicated. Anisa: SMPTE Imaging Journal, American Cinematographer and Image Technology would be good places to start as far as journals are concerned, though unless the degree programme you're on is strong on, and emphasises the technical aspects of filmmaking, your library may not have subscriptions. It could be worth asking your supervisor, and/or your school or department's library rep, if subscriptions could be organised in time for them to be useful for you. The resolution/bit depth/colour space comparison issues between film and digital have been researched, discussed and opinionated about a lot within the archiving and preservation communities, too. You will find some relevant material in the Journal of Film Preservation, which has the added advantage that the back issues from 1995-2012 are available online and for free (though some articles are in French, with only abdidged summary/extended abstract versions in English). If your institution has a Project Muse subscription, check out The Moving Image as well, though my gut feeling is that you won't find a huge amount of direct relevance to your work. As for books, Giovanna Fossati's From Grain to Pixel (Amsterdam UP, 2009) is possibly relevant; but again its* emphasis is on the preservation and restoration of old movies, not the creation of new ones. Focal Press's** website may be worth a look. Their books are essentially high level technical traning manuals, but some do include reflective and analytical content along the way. * Note - no apostrophe when used as a possessive pronoun (the apostrophe indicates a contraction of "it is"). ** A common misconception is that the possessive form of all nouns ending in the letter s has a trailing apostrophe. In fact (in British English at least - I know that there are some significant differences in punctuation conventions between British and US English, especially in the punctuation of quotations, though I'm not sure on this particular one), only possessive plural nouns ending in s do. The possessive form of all singular nouns, including those ending in s, is apostrophe-s.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2014 08:52 PM                        quote: Leo Enticknap no apostrophe when used as a possessive pronoun (the apostrophe indicates a contraction of "it is") That's the way I learned it -- if you write a word with an apostrophe in it, try reading it as if the words were not contracted (such as "it is" or "that is")and if that's not what you wanted to say, it indicates the apostrophe doesn't belong.  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 04-18-2014 12:31 AM                     So the apostrophe (does not) need to be in "doesn't?"  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-18-2014 12:20 PM                        Hmm! Well I guess there are exceptions to almost everything! Kind of like "I before E except after C" -- that's a weird rule.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-18-2014 01:23 PM                        "I before E, except after C, but weird is weird"! Interestingly, the reverse tends to apply in German.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-21-2014 12:45 PM                        I before E except after C and your weird neighbors  |  IP: Logged

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