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

Author

• Brown, Willliam

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9781501327292

Series

Thinking cinema

Subject(s)

• INDEPENDENT FILMS-PRODUCTION AND DIRECTION
• MOTION PICTURES-TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 271-290. Index: p. 291-296

Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

x, 296 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction: What is Non-cinema?

1. Digital Dreams in Afghanistan
2. The Iranian Digital Underground, Multitudinous Cinema and the Diegetic Spectator
3. Digital Entanglement and the Blurring of Fiction and Documentary in China
4. Digital Darkness in the Philippines
5. Digital acinema from afrance
6. The Cruel, Monstrous Extreme of the Digital
7. A Certain Compatibility: The British Digital Wave
8. Non-cinema in the Heart of Cinema
9. Globalisation, Erasure, Poverty: Digital Non-Cinema in Uruguay
10. Cinema out of Control: These are Not Films
11. Farewell to Cinema; Hello to Africa

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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