Abstract
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Compact Cinematics delves into contemporary forms of engagement with the consumption, reception and exhibition of the short film to highlight key aspects of the attention economy and media ecology. Film and media theorists, and book editors, Pepita Hesselberth and Maria Poulaki have accordingly arranged the chapters around five sections detailing the various lives of the mobile fragment, immediately spurring the reader