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Expanded cinema is not exactly a defined object, but mostly a process. His best known book, expanded cinema, was the first to consider video as an art form and has been credited with helping to legitimate the fields of computer art and media arts. In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. The audience and the myth of entertainment 156k part two. He is a faculty member of the california institute of the arts, school of critical studies. Gene youngblood born 30 may 1942, is a theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. Stan vanderbeeks synthetic multimedia moviedrome of the 1960s, for example, is in high contrast to the analytic and. Gene youngblood is an internationally known theorist of electronic media arts, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of experimental film and video art, which he has taught for 34 years. Gene youngblood expanded cinema gene youngblood expanded cinema chelmsford. This book is available in pdf format by individual chapters or as a whole. Expanded cinema by gene youngblood 1970, the first book to consider video as an art form.
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