Manovich L. The Language of New Media

MIT Press, 2001. — 307 p.A Personal Chronology, Theory of the Present, Mapping New Media: the Method, Mapping New Media: Organization, The Terms: Language, Object, RepresentationWhat is New Media?
Principles of New Media
Numerical Representation, Modularity, Automation, Variability, Transcoding
What New Media is Not
Cinema as New Media, The Myth of the Digital, The Myth of InteractivityThe Interface
The Language of Cultural Interfaces
Cultural Interfaces, Printed Word, Cinema, HCI: Representation versus Control
The Screen and the User
A Screen's Genealogy, The Screen and the Body, Representation versus SimulationThe Operations
Menus, Filters, Plug-ins
The Logic of Selection, Postmodernism and Photoshop, From Object to Signal
Compositing
From Image Streams to Modular Media, The Resistance to Montage, Archeology of Compositing: Cinema, Archeology of Compositing: Video, Digital Compositing, Compositing and New Types of Montage
Teleaction
Representation versus Communication, Telepresence: Illusion versus Action, Image-Instruments, Telecommunication, Distance and AuraThe Illusions
Synthetic Realism and its Discontents
Technology and Style in Cinema, Technology and Style in Computer Animation, The icons of mimesis
Synthetic Image and its Subject
Georges Méliès, the father of computer graphics, Jurassic Park and Socialist Realism
Illusion, Narrative and InteractivityThe Forms
Database
The Database Logic, Data and Algorithm, Database and Narrative, Paradigm and SyntagmA Database Complex, Database Cinema: Greenaway and VertovNavigable space
Doom and Myst, Computer Space,The Poetics of Navigation, The Navigator and the Explorer, Kino-Eye and Simulators, EVE and PlaceWhat is Cinema?
Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image
Cinema, the Art of the Index, A Brief Archeology of Moving Pictures, From Animation to Cinema, Cinema Redefined, From Kino-Eye to Kino-Brush
New Language of Cinema
Cinematic and Graphic: Cinegratography, New Temporality: Loop as a Narrative Engine, Spatial Montage, Cinema as an Information Space, Cinema as a Code.