Expanded Cinema : : Fiftieth Anniversary Edition / / Gene Youngblood.

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 consi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Meaning Systems
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 60 color illustrations and 284 b/w illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition
  • Introduction by R. Buckminster fuller
  • Inexorable evolution and human ecology
  • Preface
  • Part one: The audience and the myth of entertainment
  • Radical evolution and future shock in the paleocybernetic age
  • The lntermedia network as nature
  • Popular culture and the noosphere
  • Art, entertainment, entropy
  • Retrospective man and the human condition
  • The artist as design scientist
  • Part two: Synaesthetic cinema: the end of drama
  • Global closed circuit: the earth as software
  • Synaesthetic synthesis: simultaneous perception of harmonic opposites
  • Syncretism and metamorphosis: montage as collage
  • Evocation and exposition: toward oceanic consciousness
  • Synaesthetics and kinaesthetics: the way of all experience
  • Mythopoeia: the end of fiction
  • Synaesthetics and synergy
  • Synaesthetic cinema and polymorphous eroticism
  • Synaesthetic cinema and extra-objective reality
  • Image-exchange and the post-mass audience age
  • Part three: Toward cosmic consciousness
  • 2001: the new nostalgia
  • The stargate corridor
  • The cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson
  • Part four: Cybernetic cinema and computer films
  • The technosphere: man/machine symbiosis
  • The human bio-computer and his electronic brainchild
  • Hardware and software
  • The aesthetic machine
  • Cybernetic cinema
  • Computer films
  • Part five: Television as a creative medium
  • The videosphere
  • Cathode-ray tube videotronics
  • Synaesthetic videotapes
  • Videographic cinema
  • Closed-circuit television and teledynamic environments
  • Part six: Intermedia
  • The artist as ecologist
  • World expositions and nonordinary reality
  • Cerebrum: lntermedia and the human sensorium
  • Intermedia theatre
  • Multiple-projection environments
  • Part seven: Holographic cinema: a new world
  • Wave-front reconstruction: Lensless photography
  • Dr. Alex Jacobson: holography in motion
  • Limitations of holographic cinema
  • Projecting holographic movies
  • The kinoform: computer-generated holographic movies
  • Technoanarchy: the open empire
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index