{"product_id":"expanded-cinema-9780823287420","title":"Expanded Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiftieth 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 desig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e | ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition\u003c\/i\u003e | xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction by R. Buckminster Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e | 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller \u003c\/i\u003e| 37\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e| 41\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment\u003c\/b\u003e | 45\u003cbr\u003e Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era | 50\u003cbr\u003e The Intermedia Network as Nature | 54\u003cbr\u003e Popular Culture and the Noosphere | 57\u003cbr\u003e Art, Entertainment, Entropy | 59\u003cbr\u003e Retrospective Man and the Human Condition | 66\u003cbr\u003e The Artist as Design Scientist | 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama \u003c\/b\u003e| 75\u003cbr\u003e Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software | 78\u003cbr\u003e Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites | 81\u003cbr\u003e Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage | 84\u003cbr\u003e Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness | 92\u003cbr\u003e Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience | 97\u003cbr\u003e Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction | 106\u003cbr\u003e Synaesthetics and Synergy | 109\u003cbr\u003e Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism | 112\u003cbr\u003e Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality | 122\u003cbr\u003e Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age | 128\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness\u003c\/b\u003e | 135\u003cbr\u003e 2001: The New Nostalgia | 139\u003cbr\u003e The Stargate Corridor | 151\u003cbr\u003e The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson | 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films\u003c\/b\u003e | 179\u003cbr\u003e The Technosphere: Man\/Machine Symbiosis | 180\u003cbr\u003e The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild | 183\u003cbr\u003e Hardware and Software | 185\u003cbr\u003e The Aesthetic Machine | 189\u003cbr\u003e Cybernetic Cinema | 194\u003cbr\u003e Computer Films | 207\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Five: Television as a Creative Medium \u003c\/b\u003e| 257\u003cbr\u003e The Videosphere | 260\u003cbr\u003e Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics | 265\u003cbr\u003e Synaesthetic Videotapes | 281\u003cbr\u003e Videographic Cinema | 317\u003cbr\u003e Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments | 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Six: Intermedia \u003c\/b\u003e| 345\u003cbr\u003e The Artist as Ecologist | 346\u003cbr\u003e World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality | 352\u003cbr\u003e Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium | 359\u003cbr\u003e Intermedia Theatre | 365\u003cbr\u003e Multiple-Projection Environments | 387\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World\u003c\/b\u003e | 399\u003cbr\u003e Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography | 400\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion | 404\u003cbr\u003e Limitations of Holographic Cinema | 407\u003cbr\u003e Projecting Holographic Movies | 411\u003cbr\u003e The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies | 414\u003cbr\u003e Technoanarchy: The Open Empire | 415\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e | 421\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e| 427\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406158602583,"sku":"9780823287420","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823287420.jpg?v=1730494731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expanded-cinema-9780823287420","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}