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Manovich(2004) contends that 'in the future nonnarrative films may become more numerous'. If this happens, he suggests, 'cinema will no longer need to manufacture its reality effect'. Beginning in the 1980's, we saw the emergence of new cinematic forms that are not linear narratives, that are exhibited on a television or computer screen rather than in a movie theater and that simultaneously give up cinematic realism (Manovich, 2004).
Such new cinematic forms include the music video. Manovich (2004) explores how 'music videos often incorporate narratives within them but are not linear narratives from start to finish'. Rather they rely on film (or video) images but change them beyond the norms of traditional cinematic realism. The genre of music video has served as a laboratory for exploring numerous new possibilties of manipulating photographic images made possible by computers- the numerous points that exist in the space between the 2-D and the 3-D, cinematography and painting, photographic realism and collage (Manovich, 2004). Overall, the constant expansion of cinematic forms is to be expected. After all, if we are surrounded by highly dense information surfaces in city streets, it is only appropriate to expect from cinema a similar logic.
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