Expanded Cinema (eBook)

lt;b>Gene Youngblood (Author)
Gene Youngblood is a well-known theorist of electronic media arts and a respected scholar in the history and theory of experimental film and video art. He has split his career between teaching and journalism and is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the Media Democracy movement.

R. Buckminster Fuller (Introducer)
R. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, designer, inventor, social theorist, and the author of more than thirty books, including the legendary Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

List of Illustrations | ix
Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition | xiii
Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller | 15
Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller | 37
Preface | 41

Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment | 45
Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era | 50
The Intermedia Network as Nature | 54
Popular Culture and the Noosphere | 57
Art, Entertainment, Entropy | 59
Retrospective Man and the Human Condition | 66
The Artist as Design Scientist | 70

Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama | 75
Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software | 78
Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites | 81
Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage | 84
Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness | 92
Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience | 97
Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction | 106
Synaesthetics and Synergy | 109
Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism | 112
Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality | 122
Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age | 128

Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness | 135
2001: The New Nostalgia | 139
The Stargate Corridor | 151
The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson | 157

Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films | 179
The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis | 180
The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild | 183
Hardware and Software | 185
The Aesthetic Machine | 189
Cybernetic Cinema | 194
Computer Films | 207

Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium | 257
The Videosphere | 260
Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics | 265
Synaesthetic Videotapes | 281
Videographic Cinema | 317
Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments | 337

Part Six: Intermedia | 345
The Artist as Ecologist | 346
World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality | 352
Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium | 359
Intermedia Theatre | 365
Multiple-Projection Environments | 387

Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World | 399
Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography | 400
Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion | 404
Limitations of Holographic Cinema | 407
Projecting Holographic Movies | 411
The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies | 414
Technoanarchy: The Open Empire | 415

Selected Bibliography | 421
Index | 427