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‘A distinctive and authoritative contribution to debates about digital imaging and its transformative effects on cinema. Lisa Purse argues convincingly for a nuanced understanding of the role of digital processes within the complex of filmmaking decisions that create meaning and effect, and in relation to the history of ‘special effects’ technology and the politics of representation.’ Douglas Pye, Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Reading To what extent has cinema been transformed by the advent of digital imaging? Have digital solutions to production challenges begun to change our experience of films, and their characters, action and narratives? And what impact does the inclusion of digital imaging in the film frame have on our interpretation and analysis of film texts? Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema investigates these issues through analysis of specific film moments and extended case studies of films including Minority Report, King Kong, 300 and Hugo. It explores how digital imaging can mimic, shape or transform both fantastical and mundane objects and phenomena, what the implications are for how we ‘read’ films, and how cultural ideas about digital imaging can also influence meaning within a film, a scene or even a single shot. The increasingly widespread use of digital images in filmmaking means that we can no longer afford to ignore it when critically analysing and interpreting film texts. This innovative and engaging book provides a blueprint for approaching digital imaging in cinema, making it essential reading in contemporary Film Studies. LISA PURSE is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. She is the author of Contemporary Action Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).