Expanded Cinema and Video Art Tate Video and Essays from REWIND Cubitt Atherton Hatfield

Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception. A Tate Video - Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up questions surrounding the spectators construction of time/space relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it offers an alternative and challenging perspective on filmmaking, visual arts practices and the narratives of social space, everyday life and cultural communication.

Today, Film Studies For Free brings you more choice links to valuable resources on the topics of expanded cinema and video art. Not only the wonderful Tate Video embedded above but also, courtesy of a great scholarly website -- REWIND - Artists Film & Video in the 70s and 80s -- the following essays:

• Greyscale Video and the Shift to Colour by Prof. Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne, Australia. View a pdf of the Essay in Art Journal, Fall 2006 edition here. A video essay version of the paper is viewable here.
  

• Projection: Vanishing and Becoming by Prof. Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne, Australia. In Grau, Oliver, Eds. MediaArtHistories, pages pp. 407-422. MIT Press. View a pdf of the Essay here.

• The Trouble with Video Art by Kevin Atherton, Head of Media, National College of Art & Design, Dublin. View a pdf of the Essay here.

• Expanded Cinema - And the "Cinema of Attractions" by Dr. Jackie Hatfield. (Published in Filmwaves, Issue 27/1/2005). View a pdf of the Essay here.

• The Subject in Expanded Cinema by Dr. Jackie Hatfield. (Published in Filmwaves, Issue 24/2/2004). View a pdf of the Essay here.

An addendum: if you live in London, or care about cinema in that city, Film Studies For Free urges you, please, to visit the website of the Picture Palace Campaign for the regeneration of the former art deco cinema, now bingo hall, soon to be (possibly) evangelical church, at 25 Church Road, SE19 (Crystal Palace). It was originally built in 1928 as a cinema and the beautiful interior was designed by the renowned cinema architect George Coles (see also here).

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Expanded Cinema Studies Free eBook on Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art

Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging study takes stock of this development, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and the ramifications it has for art and cinema alike. Through the lens of contemporary art history, she examines cinema studies’ great disciplinary obsession – namely, what cinema was, is, and will become in a digital future. (blurb for Erika Balsom,  Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art [Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013])

Thanks to the legend that is Girish Shambu, Film Studies For Free heard of the latest, wonderful, freely accessible book from Amsterdam University Press: Erika Balsoms Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art. The table of contents is below. Its a valuable addition to the burgeoning field of Expanded Cinema Studies. Read it for free but please order it for your libraries! It has been added to FSFFs permanent and regularly updated listing of online Open Access Film Studies e-Books

Another related resource: six video recordings have been uploaded online of all the sessions from the recent Mediamorphosis Symposium and Exhibition at the University of Sussex at which researchers, practitioners, artists (including filmmakers), designers, scientists were invited to submit, discuss, exchange and engage with analogue and digital practices as mediamorphosis. You can find links to the videos here. 

Its been so quiet around here that FSFFs readers probably wont even notice that it is going on holiday for two weeks (it will be taking Erikas book!). It promises to return refreshed, reinvigorated and possibly even sun-tanned after that, with LOTS of new Open Access items to link to. But, in the meantime, please check out this little video on a different kind of "expanded cinema studies" - it has one or two useful resources that you may find interesting.

Erika Balsom,  Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013)

Table of Contents

Introduction – The Othered Cinema 

Chapter 1 – Architectures of Exhibition
The Passages of Cinema Projection and Patrimony Black Box/White Cube The New Blockbusters The Myth of Activity Media at MoMA 

Chapter 2 – Filmic Ruins  
Post-medium Post-mortem Indexing the Past A Little History of 35mm Ruinophilia Analogue Aura

Chapter 3 – The Remake: Old Movies, New Narratives Ambivalent Appropriations The Four Operations Precursors The False Promises of the “Utopia of Use” Remaking Fandom “Room-for-Play” VCR Memories 

Chapter 4 – The Fiction of Truth and the Truth of Fiction Anti-anti-illusionism Hybrid Forms Rehabilitating Narrative A Return of the Real Two Images of Death 
Conclusion – “Cinema and...” 

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