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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.



Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations ix
Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition xiii
Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller 15
Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller 37
Preface 41
Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment 45
Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era 50
The Intermedia Network as Nature 54
Popular Culture and the Noosphere 57
Art, Entertainment, Entropy 59
Retrospective Man and the Human Condition 66
The Artist as Design Scientist 70
Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama 75
Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software 78
Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites 81
Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage 84
Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness 92
Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience 97
Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction 106
Synaesthetics and Synergy 109
Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism 112
Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality 122
Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age 128
Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness 135
2001: The New Nostalgia 139
The Stargate Corridor 151
The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson 157
Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films 179
The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis 180
The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild 183
Hardware and Software 185
The Aesthetic Machine 189
Cybernetic Cinema 194
Computer Films 207
Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium 257
The Videosphere 260
Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics 265
Synaesthetic Videotapes 281
Videographic Cinema 317
Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments 337
Part Six: Intermedia 345
The Artist as Ecologist 346
World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality 352
Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium 359
Intermedia Theatre 365
Multiple-Projection Environments 387
Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World 399
Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography 400
Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion 404
Limitations of Holographic Cinema 407
Projecting Holographic Movies 411
The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies 414
Technoanarchy: The Open Empire 415
Selected Bibliography 421
Index 427



About the Author :
Gene Youngblood (Author)
Gene Youngblood is a well-known theorist of electronic media arts and a respected scholar in the history and theory of experimental film and video art. He has split his career between teaching and journalism and is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the Media Democracy movement.
R. Buckminster Fuller (Introducer)
R. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, designer, inventor, social theorist, and the author of more than thirty books, including the legendary Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.


Review :
Expanded Cinema defined the world of what is now known as media arts.---Alvy Ray Smith, co-founder of Pixar Expanded Cinema is one of the most prescient books written about our modern age.---Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art Gene Youngblood didn't just capture the zeitgeist of his generation. He was the zeitgeist of his generation.---Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Gene Youngblood is the medium's Thomas Jefferson. The man who wrote our Declaration of Independence, who marked out a vision of media and democracy that remains an invaluable guide to media culture and a document of extraordinary vision and prophecy.---Bruce Jenkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago I've never had an experience with a book like I had with Expanded Cinema. Gene Youngblood saw something nobody else saw and extrapolated it twenty iterations forward. I'm just completely amazed, every time, to realize how prescient he was.---Bill Viola Youngblood's Expanded Cinema stands as one of the classics of the interdisciplinary field that studies media, art, and science.---Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art What if film criticism could read as science fiction? That question crossed my mind as I was reading Gene Youngblood's influential 1970 survey, ... that functions as history and augury at once. Youngblood offers... an integrative approach to some of the most radical modes of moviemaking in the 1960s, bringing together bodies of work that might otherwise be understood in contradiction-- Stan Brakhage meets Bell Labs... Expanded Cinema is a future forecast by way of a vibe report.---Thomas Beard, Artforum


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780823287420
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Meaning Systems
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0823287424
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Sub Title: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition


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