Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video

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Univ of California Press, Sep 30, 2012 - Performing Arts - 189 pages
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept Òex-ÓÑmeaning from, outside, and no longerÑAkira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.
 

Contents

EXCoo Exergue ExCinema
1
EXC01 Out of the Blue Ex Nihilo
15
EXC02 Extimacy
38
EXC03 Cinemnesis
56
EXC04 The Rhetoric of Images of the Unimaginable
73
EXC05 Derrida Specters SelfReflection
87
EXC06 Parenthesis Video Ergo Sum
106
EXC07 Digesture
119
EXC08 Extract Matthias Müller
138
EXC09 Revisionary Cinema
150
EXCIO XXXXMA
169
Index
181
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Akira Mizuta Lippit is Professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is on the board of Film Quarterly, and is author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife.

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