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    Cinema Expanded by Walley, Jonathan;

    Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 3 September 2020

    • ISBN 9780190938642
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages570 pages
    • Size 155x231x33 mm
    • Weight 857 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 276 figures
    • 92

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    Short description:

    A bold new account of its subject, Cinema Expanded provides the first scholarly studies of lesser-known avant-garde cinematic works, in addition to the works of artists like Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik, and argues that these works radically explore cinema's outer limits, even challenging the definition of cinema itself.

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    Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and the traditional theatrical exhibition space. First emerging in the 1960s amidst seismic shifts in the arts, multi-screen films, live cinematic performance, light art, kinetic art, video, and computer-generated imagery - all placed under expanded cinema's umbrella - re-emerged at the dawn of the 2000s, opening a vast new horizon of possibility for the moving image, and perhaps even heralding the end of cinema as we know it.

    Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia offers a bold new account of its subject, breaking from previous studies and from larger trends in film and art scholarship. Author Jonathan Walley argues that expanded cinema's apparent departure from the traditions and forms of cinema as we know it actually radically asserts cinema's nature and artistic autonomy. Walley also resituates expanded cinema within the context of avant-garde film history, linking it to a mode of filmmaking that has historically investigated and challenged the nature and limits of cinematic form. As an outgrowth of this tradition, expanded cinema offered a means for filmmakers within the avant-garde, regardless of their differing styles, formal concerns, and politics, to stake out cinema's unique aesthetic terrain - its ontology, its independence, its identity.

    In addition to reconsidering the better-known expanded cinema works of the 1960s and 70s by artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman, and Nam June Paik, Cinema Expanded also provides the first scholarly accounts of scores of lesser-known works across more than 50 years. Making new arguments about avant-garde cinema in general and its complex meditations on the nature of cinema, it urgently addresses current and crucial debates about the fate of the moving image amidst a digital age of near-constant technological change.

    let me simply praise his massive undertaking in revisiting works that are difficult to write about as they are rarely permanently available for study. Writing about installations, especially ones requiring hours of contemplation, is challenging, and Walley's work in gathering these works together to be reconsidered is much appreciated.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: The Persistence of Cinema
    Chapter 1: The Two Expanded Cinemas
    Chapter 2: Expanded Cinema Revis(it)ed
    Chapter 3: Cinema as Performance
    Chapter 4: Cinema as Object I
    Chapter 5: Cinema as Object II
    Chapter 6: Cinema as Idea
    Conclusion: Reframing Expanded Cinema
    Index

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