[Commlist] New Paperback: Non-Cinema

/Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude/, is now 
available in paperback.

A recent review 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25785273.2020.1785148> by 
Romina Turana in /Transnational Screens/ said that "[t]he most 
controversial element of this book... is its price. It seems to negate 
the underlying message of Brown’s work related to a sense of a new 
democratic wave in film studies. I would recommend reading this book, 
but find it in a library."

Bearing in mind that Turana touches upon a common issue in relation to 
the pricing of new academic texts (an issue that collectively we really 
ought to try to sort out at some point, especially for less experienced 
authors who may not be able to move immediately into, say, open access 
book publishing for a variety of complex but intertwined reasons that 
are beyond the scope of this message), the appearance of the book in 
paperback hopefully does go some way to negating the price issue as 
identified.

(And what with libraries generally being out of action for the time 
being, it also provides an alternative to what is otherwise one of my 
favourite experiences, and one that Turana here recommends, namely 
sitting in a library reading a book.)

So... rather than the horrifically expensive £90 for a hardback copy, 
you can now pay a more reasonable £26.09 for the paperback (or even 
cheaper if you go full invertebrate and buy the spineless version).

To that end, should you ever wish to read a book about contemporary 
digital filmmaking from around the world, including case studies from 
Afghanistan, Iran, China, the Philippines, France and francophone 
Africa, the UK (via Turkey), the USA, Uruguay and Nigeria, then check it 
out.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/non-cinema-9781501361654/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/non-cinema-9781501361654/>

FYI (or rather: here's some more sales spiel), here are some other 
thoughts on the book, should you feel that you have a spare £26.09 to 
spend, but are not quite sure what to spend it on (although I perhaps 
should point out that for the same you could get /Beloved/ for £9.99, 
/Ulysses/ for £8.99, and Audre Lorde's /The Master's Tools Will Never 
Dismantle the Master's House/, James Baldwin's /Dark Days/ and Chinua 
Achebe's /Africa's Tarnished Name/ each for £2 in the Penguin Modern 
series, with enough left over to pick up those LED String Lights that 
you fancied at Poundland - and **still** have enough left over for a 
Chomp - a set of selections for which, frankly, I'd admire you [and 
which you could get for even less if you bought the books by donating 
some money to the Jeff Bezos Immortality Fund... but all the same):-

“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

“Non-Cinema is a ground-breaking book that provides a remarkable 
analysis of the political and ethical issues at stake in the global 
postcinematic profusion of digital film practices.” – *Frédéric Brayard 
in *Screen


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