This is a paperbound reprint of a 2007 book. Marchessault (art, digital media, and globalization, York University, Canada) and Lord (film studies, Queen's U., Canada) edit essays discussing the shift from traditional cinema to new frontiers, using the theories of McLuhan and Deleuze as a starting point. Topics include multi-screens and future cinema, new media as metaphor, feminist digital aesthetics, immigrant semiosis, and the dialectics of Canadian film labor; specific works studied include Amika, The Last Angel of History, and Full Spectrum Warrior. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)