Greetings All, Greetings all & Menotti,
Speaking as a former film projectionist, film programmer, cosmic adviser and film fan, I'm really curious about this publication... "The indisciplinary experience of curators and projectionists provides ... " made me look into it, but at 95 euros, I'd hesitate to even steal such a tome! There is also a line about a crisis in film (movies?) which I don't see at all. Anyhow, if somebody does buy, steal, pirate a copy, please let me know what you think! All the best, Diana > From: Gabriel Menotti <gabriel.meno...@gmail.com> > Subject: [spectre] Publication Announcement | Movie Circuits: > Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology | Amsterdam University > Press > Dear all, > > With the usual apologies for spamming, I'm happy to share with you the > release of Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology, a > book on rogue cinemas, practice-led research, and a hint of philosophy of > technology. > > The table of contents and full introduction ('Blind Optics') can be > downloaded from the publisher's website. In case it might interest your > institution, there is a 20% discount code for ordering it from them in the > first two months: ?Pub_MovieCircuits? > > Regards, > Menotti > > * * * > > *Movie Circuits* > Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology > By Gabriel Menotti > > https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089648907/movie-circuits > > Movie Circuits attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the > underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus > crystallize across different material formations. The indisciplinary > experience of curators and projectionists provides a means to suspend > traditional film studies and engage with the medium as it happens, as a > continuing, self-differing mess. From contemporary art exhibitions to > pirate screenings, research and practice come together in a vibrant form of > media scholarship, built from the angle of cinema?s functionaries ? a call > to reinvent the medium from within. > > Gabriel Menotti is a lecturer in Film and Multimedia at UFES (Brazil). He > holds a PhD from Goldsmiths (University of London). > > MediaMatters > February 2019 > 210 pages, 21 b/w illustrations > Hardback > ISBN 978 90 8964 890 7 > e-ISBN 978 90 4852 754 0 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/spectre/attachments/20190226/1e52d803/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > SPECTRE mailing list > SPECTRE@mikrolisten.de > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > > ------------------------------ > > End of SPECTRE Digest, Vol 192, Issue 17 > **************************************** ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre