From the archives: Thomas Beard on Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema
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 some of the most radical nodes of moviemaking in the 1960s, bringing together bodies of work that mi...
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