Clay animation

recognised in this film through the reflective use of “the mundane with the fantastical and the morbid with the sublime to create a thoroughly eerie and unsettling dreamscape” (Shankel, 2014) concluded with the expenditure of contrasting live action, clay animation and stop motion. Švankmajer, already renowned in Czechoslovakia for an auteurist style that interrogates societal norms and expresses a disillusionment with bourgeoisie hegemony, makes use of the view that Alice's Adventures in…

1. Remediation is the reshaping of a medium. Two important media theorists, Bolter and Grusin encounter a paradox. A very important aspect of remediation is hypermediacy. “Hypermediacy is the opposite of transparent immediacy in that hypermediacy’s goal is not transparency, but rather to be very apparent so that the user may interact with the interface.” The attempt of reaching remediation that starts from mediation. Both theorists encountered the “double logic of remediation”. What the double…

Audiences have been entrapped by the spectacle of film ever since the late 19th century when moving pictures were introduced. People were amazed by scenes of everyday life, such as a train passing by or a horse galloping on a dirt path. Film never lost its popularity; film kept developing. It started with the simple scenes that were less than a minute and moved on to stories, and then non-fiction stories. Next there was sound and color, and then parallel storylines and camera movement. With each…

While ubiquitous Internet access is extremely convenient and enables marvelous new applications for mobile users, it also creates a major security vulnerability—by placing a passive receiver in the vicinity of the wireless transmitter, that receiver can obtain a copy of every packet that is transmitted! These packets can contain all kinds of sensitive information, including passwords, social security numbers, trade secrets, and private personal messages. A passive receiver that records a copy of…