Non-Cinema

William Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the author of Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age (2013), Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (2010), with Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin, and co-editor, with David Martin-Jones, of Deleuze and Film (2012).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: What is Non-cinema?1. Digital Dreams in Afghanistan2. The Iranian Digital Underground, Multitudinous Cinema and the Diegetic Spectator3. Digital Entanglement and the Blurring of Fiction and Documentary in China4. Digital Darkness in the Philippines5. Digital acinema from afrance6. The Cruel, Monstrous Extreme of the Digital7. A Certain Compatibility: The British Digital Wave8. Non-cinema in the Heart of Cinema9. Globalisation, Erasure, Poverty: Digital Non-Cinema in Uruguay10. Cinema out of Control: These are Not Films11. Farewell to Cinema; Hello to AfricaConclusionBibliographyIndex

Brown brilliantly introduces the concept of non-cinema as anti-thesis, remainder and emergent condition of a "post-colonial" world dominated and impoverished by the logistics of capital-cinema. Non-cinema investigates zones of invisibility at the margins of spectacle, in the poor image, and in the poor world, while also providing a powerful survey of global (non-)cinema, its various attributes and its urgent commitments to socially transformative modes of relation. The book is a significant theoretical elaboration and critique of the world-media system, that also collects and concentrates globally distributed, often liminal, instances of struggle, inspiration and liberation.