Steve F. Anderson

Technologies of Cinema is an interactive, richly mediated electronic publication and critical media archive designed to model the integration of two recently developed tools for digital scholarship: the authoring platform Scalar and the media archive Critical Commons. The Technologies of Cinema archive offers a publicly accessible collection of media depicting the evolution of computer technology as seen on American commercial film and TV from the 1950s to the present. The Scalar project is a book-length critical treatment of this history, featuring hundreds of embedded media files and a series of original video essays. This project represents the most ambitious integration of Critical Commons and Scalar yet attempted, providing both an illuminating cultural analysis and model for future scholarship.