Response to "What Is Digital Cinema?"

This article seemed almost angry to me. I felt like Manovich was upset at the changing techniques of cinema. He talks about the history of cinema, and how now the technology is "destroying cinema's identity as a media art". He seems especially upset since he believes animation is terrible, " ... all of this was delegated to cinema's bastard relative, its supplement, its shadow -- animation" I don't understand why he would be upset since he is a new media person. I don't necessarily agree with him the the use of computers to generate images in film is creating cinema to become a part of animation. I think they may be blurred a little bit, but I still think cinema has its own characteristics that make it unique.

Response to "The Technology and the Society" and "The Television Delivers the People"

"The Television Delivers The People"

I really liked this film. I thought it effective the way it used the medium it was criticizing. I like the elevator type music in the background. It made the message seem so harmless. It used the same tactics normal television uses to draw in its viewers. As a viewer I could see people being very shocked and upset by the messages being shown. The messages were very dated though, I kept thinking about this work in the time I was created instead of today. I think that today it doesn't function very well since this message has been stated over and over.

"The Technology and the Society"

I thought this article was also dated. It was kind of nice to see the background of the medium we are using, but the ideas seemed old and I don't feel like I learned much from it.