The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich

Key Principles
1. editing or montage
a. tmporal montage
b. montage within a shot
2. "film can overcome its indexical nature through montage by presenting a viewer with objects that never existed in reality"
3. "different worlds can clash semantically rather than form a single universe"
4. "the camera can be anywhere and with its superhuman vision it can obtain a close up of any object"
5. "a realistic representation of a different reality"
6. database imagination
7. levels
8. "effects is cinema's new way of speaking"
9. question; "how to merge database and narrative into a new form"
10. "database of new operations of visual epistemology"
11. "collage reemerged as the "cut-and-paste" command"
12. loop and computer age
13. "cinema adds multiple windows to its language"
14. "cinema can be thought of as an interface to events taking place in 3D space"