Interactive Cinema: A Conversation with Marina Hassapopoulou
Interactive Cinema is not only a valiant effort to expand the history and theory of cinema through the inclusion of its interactive dimensions, but also a plea for further attunement between scholarship and practices of (new) media preservation and remediation. More than documenting the existence of these diverse texts, Hassapopoulou offers in her analysis a reconsideration of film theory that disrupts its traditional ocularcentrism, and a recentering of a multisensorial viewser vacillating between different modes of interactivity, showing, after all, that “cinema has always been interactive” (15).
