Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium

Dr Paula Albuquerque is a scholar and an artist who teaches at the University of Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She published articles in Necsus Journal, and in the forthcoming book Experimental Glitch, Bloomsbury. She showed films and other art work at, among others, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

• Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Video Surveillance versus the Affected Personal Cam, 2. Post-Panopticism and the Attention Economy, 3. From Cinematographic to Cinematic Apparatus, 4. Cinematic Chronotopes: The Temporality of the Cinematic Mode of Existence of the Webcams, 5. Webcams and the Archive, 6. Appropriating the Cinematic Apparatus, Afterword, Conclusion, Bibliography, List of Images, Index of Authours, Index of Makers, Index of Subjects/Artworks

"Something about Albuquerque’s enthusiasm for the cinematic possibilities of the webcam is absolutely infectious. I confess that before reading the book, I had never really considered webcams as anything particularly valuable. ... Albuquerque’s argument, however, is extremely well made, and her writing style made for one of the most readable scholarly pieces I’ve yet read. All in all, Albuquerque has written an excellent piece, and made a believer out of me." - Jonathan T. Pearce, Film Matters 10.2 (2019) ''Both innovative, intuitive, rigorous, and rich in theoretical advancements, The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium analyzes these different aesthetic forms with its characteristics, rules, and codes." – Yves Laberge, Séquences, issue 339, 2024