Dear All Please forgive me for the self-promotion and the cross-posting, which forgiveness hopefully is possible given that we all seem to be reduced to such behaviours in these attention-seeking and attention-sucking days. Here are details about a new book, Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude, which recently got released by Bloomsbury as part of their Thinking Cinema series, edited by Sarah Cooper and David Martin-Jones. As follows:- About Non-Cinema Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude 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-Cinemaconstructs 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. Reviews “Brown brilliantly introduces the concept of non-cinema as anti-thesis, remainder and emergent condition of a "post-colonial" world dominated and impoverished by the logistics of capital-cinema. Non-cinema investigates zones of invisibility at the margins of spectacle, in the poor image, and in the poor world, while also providing a powerful survey of global (non-)cinema, its various attributes and its urgent commitments to socially transformative modes of relation. The book is a significant theoretical elaboration and critique of the world-media system, that also collects and concentrates globally distributed, often liminal, instances of struggle, inspiration and liberation.” – Jonathan Beller, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Media Studies, Pratt Institute, USA “Whether we understand it as 'acinema', 'paracinema', or 'post-cinema', William Brown's extremely important text on all such non-cinemas is deeply impressive: its breadth of knowledge, both theoretical and geo-cultural, has clearly demonstrated Brown to be the best thinker of non-standard cinemas working today.” – John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film, Kingston University, UK “William Brown's Non-Cinema is a brilliant speculative history of cinema acting out against itself, against every convention and institution of film. This masterpiece unfolds everywhere else, forming the contours of a cinema that is not one, but rather a series of interventions that articulate the deep values that forge a cinema in spite itself, a total cinema understood as the very limits of cinema, non-cinema.” – Akira Mizuta Lippit, Professor of Literature and Film, University of Southern California, USA “'Prompted by the digital explosion which allowed for the excluded to come into the picture, William Brown took on the challenge of navigating through and making sense of the multitude – that is, the images and sounds of those who populate the outside of the narrow frame of capitalism. Truly global in scope and erudition, Non-Cinema takes us on a revelatory journey through the hidden audiovisual jewels from Afghanistan, Iran, China, the Philippines, Uruguay, France, the UK, the US, culminating in Nigeria with the ultimate non-cinematic production of Nollywood. Exemplary in its intellectual ambition and analytical acumen, this is a must-read book by one of today's most original audiovisual specialists.'” – Lúcia Nagib, Professor of Film, University of Reading, UK Table of contents Acknowledgements Introduction: What is Non-cinema? 1. Digital Dreams in Afghanistan 2. The Iranian Digital Underground, Multitudinous Cinema and the Diegetic Spectator 3. Digital Entanglement and the Blurring of Fiction and Documentary in China 4. Digital Darkness in the Philippines 5. Digital acinema from afrance 6. The Cruel, Monstrous Extreme of the Digital 7. A Certain Compatibility: The British Digital Wave 8. Non-cinema in the Heart of Cinema 9. Globalisation, Erasure, Poverty: Digital Non-Cinema in Uruguay 10. Cinema out of Control: These are Not Films 11. Farewell to Cinema; Hello to Africa Conclusion Bibliography Index Where you might want to consider buying this: https://www.bloomsbury.c om/uk/non-cinema-9781501327261/. As you will note, Bloomsbury are making the incredibly generous offer of a £22.03 discount if you buy through their website, making the book descend from a bargain £110.16 per copy to the snip of £88.13. Meanwhile, if you take a leisurely cruise through the waters of the Amazon website, then you will notice that there the book goes for the bargain-basement prices of £76 for the Kindle edition and £80 for the hardback. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Cinema-Digital-Film-making-Mul titude-Thinking-ebook/dp/B07D9WSGLN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= 1532419927&sr=8-1&keywords=brown+non-cinema) The eagle-eyed among you will note, however, that the *used* copies on the Amazon Marketplace start at £144.17. That's right: this is a book that gets more expensive the more people read it owing to the life-changing qualities of its contents. So really now is the time to buy it, since otherwise this will be the publishing equivalent of wishing you'd got involved in Bitcoin on the ground level. However, if for any reason you don't have that sort of dosh sloshing around your slush fund, then perhaps this might be one for your libraries to buy, such that you and those who still go to such institutions might all have a chance to gander. Even though I say so myself, I think that the book will be of interest to scholars of various different hues. So I hope that news of its arrival is not too much of a burden on the old inbox. With best wishes to all William Brown -- Dr William Brown Senior Lecturer in Film Department of Media, Culture and Language University of Roehampton London SW15 5SL T: (020)8 392 3713 M: 07950 978 708 E1: [log in to unmask] E2: [log in to unmask] Blog: http://wjrcbrown.wordpress.com/ Website: http://begstealborrowfilms.wordpress.com/ Author: Supercinema: Film Philosophy for the Digital Age (2013), Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude (Forthcoming) Co-author: Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (2010) Co-editor: Deleuze and Film (2012) Co-editor: Special Issue of animation: an interdisciplinary journal on Avatar (2012) Director: En Attendant Godard (2009), Afterimages (2010), Common Ground (2012), China: A User's Manual (Films) (2012), Selfie (2014), Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015), The New Hope (2015), Circle/Line (2016), Letters to Ariadne (2016), St Mary Magdalen's Home Movies (2016), Roehampton Guerrillas (2011-2016) (2017), The Benefit of Doubt (post-production), #randomaccessmemory (post-production), Sculptures of London (production), Vlado and William (production), This is Cinema (pre-production). ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. 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