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Cinema expanded : avant-garde film in the age of intermedia /

By: Walley, Jonathan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020Description: viii, 561 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780190938635; 9780190938642.Subject(s): Experimental films -- History and criticism | Intermediality | New media artDDC classification: 791.43
Contents:
Introduction: The persistence of cinema -- The two expanded cinemas -- Expanded cinema revis(it)ed -- Cinema as performance -- Cinema as object I -- Cinema as object II -- Cinema as idea -- Conclusion: Reframing expanded cinema.
Summary: "Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia a comprehensive historical survey of expanded cinema from the mid-1960s to the present. It offers an historical and theoretical revision of the concept of expanded cinema, placing it in the context of avant-garde/experimental film history rather than the history of new media, intermedia, or multimedia. The book argues that, while expanded cinema has taken an incredible variety of forms (including moving image installation, multi-screen films, live cinematic performance, light shows, shadow plays, computer-generated images, video art, sculptural objects, and texts), it is nonetheless best understood as an ongoing meditation by filmmakers on the nature of cinema, specifically, and on its relationship to the other arts. Cinema Expanded also extends its historical and theoretical scope to avant-garde film culture more generally, placing expanded cinema in that context while also considering what it has to tell us about the moving image in the art world and new media environment"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The persistence of cinema -- The two expanded cinemas -- Expanded cinema revis(it)ed -- Cinema as performance -- Cinema as object I -- Cinema as object II -- Cinema as idea -- Conclusion: Reframing expanded cinema.

"Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia a comprehensive historical survey of expanded cinema from the mid-1960s to the present. It offers an historical and theoretical revision of the concept of expanded cinema, placing it in the context of avant-garde/experimental film history rather than the history of new media, intermedia, or multimedia. The book argues that, while expanded cinema has taken an incredible variety of forms (including moving image installation, multi-screen films, live cinematic performance, light shows, shadow plays, computer-generated images, video art, sculptural objects, and texts), it is nonetheless best understood as an ongoing meditation by filmmakers on the nature of cinema, specifically, and on its relationship to the other arts. Cinema Expanded also extends its historical and theoretical scope to avant-garde film culture more generally, placing expanded cinema in that context while also considering what it has to tell us about the moving image in the art world and new media environment"--

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