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Medium-Specificity And Sociality In Expanded Cinema Re-Enactment, Lucas M. Ihlein
Medium-Specificity And Sociality In Expanded Cinema Re-Enactment, Lucas M. Ihlein
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In this short paper, I introduce the work of the artist group Teaching and Learning Cinema, which reenacts Expanded Cinema artworks from the 1960s and 70s. I make a connection between sociality (which binds together artists in collectives and screening "clubs") and the issue of mediumspecificity. Re-enacting Expanded Cinema, I suggest, gently probes at the intersection of mediumspecificity and sociality. This practice asks questions about the material qualities of film, video and performance, and the particular relations these media carry across time and culture.
Crossover Cinema: A Conceptual And Genealogical Overview, Sukhmani Khorana
Crossover Cinema: A Conceptual And Genealogical Overview, Sukhmani Khorana
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In this collection, the term crossover cinema is used to encapsulate an emerging form of cinema that crosses cultural borders at the stage of conceptualization and production and hence manifests a hybrid cinematic grammar at the textual level, as well as crossing over in terms of its distribution and reception. It argues for the importance of distinguishing between crossover cinema and transnational cinema. While the latter label has been important in enabling the recognition and consideration of the impact of post–World War II migration and globalization on film practice and scholarship, and while it constituted a significant advance on the …