Books by Michael (Savannah College of Art and Design Betancourt

Using a series of highly detailed close readings of title designs through the interpretive lens of theories of cinematic realism, this book engages with issues of indexicality, narrative, and the difference between subjective and objective presentations, using examples of title sequences from historical film and contemporary digital cinema.

Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema, as well as studio-based research, here media artist and theorist Michael Betancourt critiques cinematic realism and spatial montage in motion pictures. This new taxonomic framework for conceptualizing linkages between media art and narrative cinema opens new areas of experimentation for todayΓÇÖs film editors, motion designers, and other media artists.