Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood's influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and holography as cinematic technologies. Long considered the bible for media artists, Youngblood's insider account of 1960s counterculture and the birth of cybernetics remains a mainstay reference in today's hypermediated digital world. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes a new Introduction by the author that offers conceptual tools for understanding the sociocultural and sociopolitical realities of our present world.A unique eyewitness account of burgeoning experimental film and the birth of video art in the late 1960s, this far- ranging study traces the evolution of cinematic language to the end of fiction, drama, and realism. Vast in scope, its prescient formulations include "the paleocybernetic age, " "intermedia, " the "artist as design scientist, " the "artist as ecologist, " "synaesthetics and kinesthetics, " and "the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis." Outstanding works are analyzed in detail. Methods of production are meticulously described, including interviews with artists and technologists of the period, such as Nam June Paik, Jordan Belson, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, Les Levine, and Frank Gillette. An inspiring Introduction by the celebrated polymath and designer R. Buckminster Fuller—a perfectly cut gem of countercultural thinking in itself—places Youngblood's radical observations in comprehensive perspective.Providing an unparalleled historical documentation, Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the arthistorical record half a century later. The book will also inspire the current generation of artists working in ever-newer expansions of the cinematic environment and will prove invaluable to all who are concerned with the technologies that are reshaping the nature of human communication.
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Publisher
Fordham University PressYear
2020Print ISBN
9780823287413
9780823287420
eBook ISBN
9780823287437
The
Audience
and
the
Myth
of
Entertainment
49
We
are
tragically
in
need
of
new
vision:
expanded
cinema
is
the
beginning
of
that
vision.
We
shall
be
released.
We
will
bring
down
the
wall.
We'll
be
reunited
with
our
reflection.
I'm
writing
at
the
end
of
the
era
of
cinema
as
we've
known
it,
the
beginning
of
an
era
of
image-exchange
between
man
and
man.
The
cinema,
said
Godard,
is
truth
twenty-four
times
a
second.
The
truth
is
this:
that
with
the
possibility
of
each
man
on
earth
being
born
a
physical
success
there
is
no
archetypal
Man
whom
one
can
use
in
the
culturally
elitist
manner
and
each
man
becomes
the
subject
of
his
own
study.
The
historical
preoccupation
with
finding
the
one
idea
that
is
Man
will
give
way
to
the
idea
that
earth
is,
and
then
to
the
idea
of
other
earths.
Table of contents
- Cover
- EXPANDED CINEMA
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
- Introduction
- Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology
- Preface
- Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment
- Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama
- Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness
- Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films
- Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium
- Part Six: lntermedia
- Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Errata
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