[ecrea] New Book: Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude

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.



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.com/uk/non-cinema-9781501327261/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/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-Multitude-Thinking-ebook/dp/B07D9WSGLN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532419927&sr=8-1&keywords=brown+non-cinema 
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Cinema-Digital-Film-making-Multitude-Thinking-ebook/dp/B07D9WSGLN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532419927&sr=8-1&keywords=brown+non-cinema>)


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