Non-Cinema

Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av William Brown, David Martin-Jones

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-01-23
Mått150 x 226 x 20 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThinking Cinema
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501361654

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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.