Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (Film Culture in Transition) - Softcover

Balsom, Erika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089644717 ISBN 13: 9789089644718

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging study takes stock of this development, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and the ramifications it has for art and cinema alike. Through the lens of contemporary art history, she examines cinema studies’ great disciplinary obsession – namely, what cinema was, is, and will become in a digital future.

About this title

About the Author:

Erika Balsom is lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King's College London.

Review:

 “This book is one I have been hoping to encounter for quite a while. It is rich in theoretical reflections as well as critical analyses of works, and makes a very strong case for a new form of art and a new form of cinema in one. It is theoretically complex and elegantly written.”  (Mieke Bal Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

"Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art is our first sustained critical history of one of the most important dimensions of contemporary art: the encounter of the cinema with the museum, the art gallery, and new practices of moving image installation. It is also a deep examination of the persistence of a certain memory of cinema that persists as a subject of critical re-examination by the most fascinating artists of our time.  It is a path-breaking book that will long remain unsurpassable."   (D.N. Rodowick Harvard University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9089644717
• ISBN 13: 9789089644718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260