Review of The language of new media. Chapter 6, What is cinema?

Chapter 6 is a very intense and hearty read. Full off important and useful information, such as the history and development of cinema, for example the digital image and the history of the moving image which follows a historical trajectory from 19th century techniques for creating moving images to 20th century cinema and animation. In this last chapter of the book It covers the followig questions. How does computerisation affect our very own concept of the moving image? Does it offer new possibilities for film language? Did it lead to the development of totally new films in cinema?

An important part I took from the chapter was to do with the principles behind new media and that this image we create becomes an image interface and as computer users we oursleves become Lewis Carroll's Alice in our very own wonderland.
Personally I found it abit overwhelming and in some parts quite alot to take in, as i'm rather new to multimedia my self, therefore I would encourage others like me to take their time with it in order to fully understand the concept behind the subject. Maybe reading the last chapter of the book was the reason for me not being able to understand it completely in parts. If i had progressed through the book chapter by chapter it possibly would have made more sense.

This is a sentence i felt somed up the chaptper "Cinema works hard to erase any traces of its own production proccess, including any indication that the images which we see could have been constructed rather than recorded."