Mr Youngblood-
Will that be a new version of Expanded Cinema? We need EC back in print now
more than ever. It is a mindbender of a book.
Thanks.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Doug,
> Among other things, *Expanded Cinema* was about the moving image becoming
> electronic and therefore no longer medium-specific, and some implications
> of that. As far as I know, Ed didn’t begin working with video until 1972,
> when he made *Scape-Mates *at* *the Experimental Television Center at *WNET.
> Scape-Mates *was a pioneering work, however, as it was among the first,
> if not the very first, “film” in which photographed human beings interacted
> with an entirely synthetic electronic environment. If Ed had made it three
> years earlier it most certainly would have been in *Expanded Cinema*.
>
> I’m currently building a website that will have everything I ever wrote
> (including the review of *Relativity* in the *Los Angeles Herald-Examiner*)
> *–* except the 150 articles I wrote for the *Los Angeles Free Press,*which
> I’m collecting in a book. They include the original articles that
> became *Expanded Cinema.* As an added perk, there’s a lot of psychedelic
> graphics from the pages of the *Free Press* that appear for the first
> time in book form, including the amazing surrealism of Chick Strand’s
> husband Martin Muller (“Neon Park”). He’s known for his album covers, but
> these are full-page ads he did for KPPC Radio in the sixties. I’m
> reproducing them as much in memory of Chick as of Marty.
>
> The website should be ready this fall, and the *Free Press* book will be
> published next year. Also this fall I’m starting a blog called “Secession
> From the Broadcast,” which is about my work in radical media theory. The
> website is the past, the blog is the future. Its subtitle is “Leave the
> Culture Without Leaving the Country.” Thanks for your interest...
> **
> *From:* Doug Chaffin("Douglas Graves") <dgtols...@yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:21 PM
> *To:* FrameWorks <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>
> *Subject:* [Frameworks] Question For Gene Youngblood
>
> I'm a big fan of your Expanded Cinema book. thank you very much for
> writing it. but i'm curious as to why you did not include anything about Ed
> Emshwiller?
>
> And i was wondering if you could please put up online your review of
> "Relativity" ?
>
> Best,
> *Doug Graves*
>
>
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