Non-cinema : global digital film-making and the multitude / William Brown.
| Author/creator | Brown, William, 1977- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Thinking cinema ; volume 6 Thinking cinema ; v. 6. ^A1315882 |
| Contents | Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: What is Non-Cinema?; Notes; Chapter 1: Digital Dreams in Afghanistan; 'A country without an image': Afghanistan as non-nation; Anjam and Ehsaas; The popular stutter of a people without cinema; A multitudinous non-cinema; Notes; Chapter 2: The Iranian Digital Underground, Multitudinous Cinema and the Diegetic Spectator; What is Iranian cinema?; The Iranian underground; Being singular plural; Kiarostami's non-cinema; Ta'ziyeh and the diegetic spectator; Notes. |
| Contents | Chapter 3: Digital Entanglement and the Blurring of Fiction and Documentary in China; China with capitalistic characteristics?; The digital generation; Entangled realism; Objectivity and ethics; Fuck Cinema; Fuck Cinema and/as non-cinema; Ai Weiwei and non-cinema; Activist non-cinema against the mainstream; Panic on the streets of Shanghai; Drinking in Shanghai; Practical lighting; Notes; Chapter 4: Digital Darkness in the Philippines; The Philippines as non-nation; Philippine precursors and forebears; This is not a film movement; Khavn de la Cruz and Third Cinema; Minor virtuosity. |
| Contents | 'Squatterpunctum'; Darkness and light; Back to 'reality'; Notes; Chapter 5: Digital Acinema from Afrance; Becoming cinematic; Black film, white cinema; The long, slow process of low-budget digital film-making; The monstrosity of Baise-moi; Sombre acinema; Acinema, ex-cinema, non-cinema; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: A Certain Compatibility: The British Digital Wave; Grey skies and small screens; Documentaries of their own making; Imperfect cinema; The film-essay: He(u)retical (non- )cinema; Life May Be ... Everywhere; Animals and cinema; Philosopher or Dog?; Notes. |
| Contents | Chapter 7: Non-Cinema in the Heart of Cinema; Mumblecore: An unsustainable aesthetics of failure; Thinking outside the box office; It's actually all quite comic; The scatologic of Orzo; The digital carnival; A world of comedy; Notes; Chapter 8: Globalization and Erasure: Digital Non-Cinema in Uruguay; The erasures of Uruguayan cinema; La casa muda: Unedited, inedible; La casa muda versus Silent House: Aesthetics and exploitation; The heroic heresy of immanentizing the eschaton; Use value versus cinephilia: La vida útil; A musical abolition of narrative; Bourgeois film literacy. |
| Contents | A small conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Cinema out of Control: These are Not Films; The treachery of cinema; Film-making out of control; Ethics and control; The aesthetics of ethics and politics; Whither socialism?; From Plato's Cave to vibrant matter (taking it lying down); From anger to love; Kino-brush aesthetics; Notes; Chapter 10: Farewell to Cinema; Hello to Africa; God-awful Godard; Floccinaucinihilipilification; Cinema unframed; A farewell to language; And Africa ... ; Nollywood as non-cinema?; Osuofia as non-cinema; 'I came. I saw. I conquered'; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography. |
| Summary | This book 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 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Brown, William, 1977- Non-cinema. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781501327292 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781501327278 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1501327275 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781501327261 (ePDF) |
| ISBN | 1501327267 (ePDF) |
| ISBN | 9781501327285 (online) |
| ISBN | 1501327283 |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| Stock number | 9781501327278 CodeMantra |
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