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In this amazing work of art, we sit behind a middle-aged lawyer on his commute as he calls his family, listens to radio and gives a lift to a colleague

The residences are funded as part of a $545,000 award by The Barr Foundation of Boston to the Worcester Cultural Coalition.

April 07, 2021 at 4:14pm Visionary media arts theorist and critic Gene Youngblood, whose prescient 1970 book Expanded Cinema reshaped the fields of art and communications, predicted technological advances in filmmaking, and offered the first serious recognition of video and software-based works as cinematic art forms, died on April 6 in Santa Fe at the age of seventy-eight. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1942, Youngblood spent most of the 1960s in Los Angeles various...

Expanded Cinema, by Gene Youngblood. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 464 pages. WHAT IF FILM CRITICISM could be read as science fiction? The thought crossed my mind as I was revisiting Gene Youngblood’s influential 1970 survey, Expanded Cinema. Republished by Fordham University Press on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary after decades out of print, it’s a book that functions as history and augury at once. Youngblood offers, as the title suggests, an integrative approach to ...