Expanded Cinema
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Expanded Cinema

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Expanded Cinema

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

About this book

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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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

  1. Cover
  2. EXPANDED CINEMA
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
  9. Introduction
  10. Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology
  11. Preface
  12. Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment
  13. Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama
  14. Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness
  15. Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films
  16. Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium
  17. Part Six: lntermedia
  18. Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Errata