In this book Manovich, one of the leading theorists of new media, systematically and comprehensively considers the developments in new media over the past 25 years from within the history of visual culture over the past 200 years. This perspective enables Manovich to consider new media within a genealogy that stretches back to older media (photography, film). Interdisciplinary in its reach, the treatment of new media touches upon perspective and spectatorship, literary theory, computer science, film theory, art history, etc.