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Non-cinema : global digital film-making and the multitude

Brown, William, author.
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

"Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers, physicists, theorists of 'Third Cinema,' and contemporary film theorists and film-philosophers in order to argue that the future of cinema lies at the margins, in the extreme, the overlooked and the under-funded – the sort that distributors, exhibitors and audiences would not consider to be cinema at all, hence "non-cinema."Analysing numerous films, William Brown argues that contemporary low-budget digital cinema is also through its digital form a political cinema that suggests that we are not detached observers of the world, but entangled participants therewith. Non-Cinema constructs this argument by looking at work by established filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Michael Winterbottom, as well as lesser known work from places as diverse as Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa."--

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Brown, William, 1977-
Subject: Independent films
Motion pictures
Publication Year:2020
Language:English
Published:New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
ISBN:9781501361654
1501361651
Series:Thinking cinema ; volume 6
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Introduction: what is non-cinema? -- Digital dreams in Afghanistan -- The Iranian digital underground -- Multitudinous cinema and the diegetic spectator -- Digital entanglement and the blurring of fiction and documentary in China -- Digital darkness in the Philippines -- Digital cinema from France -- The cruel, monstrous extreme of the digital -- A certain compatibility: the British digital wave -- Non-cinema in the heart of cinema -- Globalisation, erasure, poverty: digital non-cinema in Uruguay -- Cinema out of control: these are not films -- Farewell to cinema; hello to Africa.
Course: JOUR205

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English Book (5/F) 791.430232 BRO 2020 Available