“Cinema has shaped new media to accommodate it”-David Bordwell, Kirsten Thompson, p.730. Since the introduction of digital cinema in the late 1990s, it's fair to say that we are truly immersed in a new digital age for cinema. Despite the opposition of some filmmakers to the introduction of digital cinema and a general distrust of the conversion from traditional films to digital, nowadays the majority of films we see in cinemas are made digitally. “The next ten years may witness the almost complete disappearance of celluloid film as a means of recording, distribution and exhibition.” (Roderick. The Virtual Life of Film (2007)) Furthermore, many classic films such as Walt Disney's “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) and Stephen Spielberg's “Jaws” (1975) have been digitally remastered to improve our quality of vision. and experience. In this essay, I aim to illustrate how cinema has shaped new media to accommodate it, and also to discuss how the advent of digital technologies is reworking the role of images. With digital cinema, you can watch movies anywhere, anytime, and on virtually any device you want. This idea seems extremely appropriate with the pace at which the world is moving right now. Almost everyone you meet has some type of Android phone or smartphone, iPod, iPad or other portable device on which they can watch a movie. “iPods are the latest digital device that allows audiovisual images to become mobile, allowing viewers to watch and listen in almost any context, provided they have first downloaded their songs and podcasts” (Wood, Aylish; Digital Encounters. 2007)Being able to watch a film on the go, on your phone or tablet is certainly one way in which “ Film has shaped the...... center of paper...... But I also look forward to what technologies will be developed to reshape film and new media. Bibliography Roderick, D.N., 2007. The Virtual Life of Film. London: Harvard University Press. Belton, J., 2012. “3D Digital Cinema: The Missing Novelty Phase of Digital Cinema.” of Film, Volume 24. Indiana: Indiana University Press.Prince, S., 1996. “True Lies, Perceptual Realism, Digital Imagery, and Film Theory.” California: University of California Press.Thompson, K. , Bordwell, D., 2010. Film History: An Introduction (Third Edition). Singapore: McGraw Hill.Wood, A., 2007. Digital Encounters. New York: Routledge.Willis, H., 2005. New Digital Cinema; reinvent the moving image. London: Wallflower.Manovich, L., 1999. What is digital cinema? http://www.manovich.net/TEXT/digital-cinema.html. Logged in on 19/12/2013.