Capturing Digital Media represents a major leap ahead in our understanding of how the digital age changes our very mode of perception. It is the book on film and the digital revolution that we have all been waiting for. Though there have been many works on the impact of digital media, Connelly’s book is the first to theorize completely the impact of digital immediacy. What’s fascinating about the book is that rather than see the effect of the digital all working in one direction, the author shows how its effect also produces a nostalgic reaction in certain films, where the director introduces imperfection as a way of marking a distance from the digital world. In order to understand how film has been irrevocably changed today, one simply must read Connelly’s pathbreaking book.
