The State of Post-Cinema

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new digital communication platforms of various kinds. The authors investigate how film has become more than cinema, no longer a medium that is based on the photochemical recording and replay of movement. Most often, the state of post-cinema is conceptualized from the "e;high end"e; of the most advanced technology; discussions focus on performance capture and digital 3-D, 4-K projection and industrial light & magic. Here, the authors' approach is focused on the "e;low-end"e; circulation of filmic images. This includes informal networks of exchange and transaction, such as p2p-networks, video platforms and so called "e;piracy"e; with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa, where political and social transformations makenew forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Like Water: On the Reconfigurations of the Cinema in the Age of Digital Networks (Malte Hagener, Vinzenz Hediger, Alena Strohmaier).- I. Informal Economies: Promises and Threats of Dissemination Technologies.- Venice to Go: Digital Circulation and the Value of Cultural In/difference in Film (Vinzenz Hediger).- Arab Storytelling in the Digital Age: From Musalsalat to Web Drama? (Alexandra Buccianti).- Mapping the Circulation of Films by Women Filmmakers with Maghrebi Funding (Patricia Caillé).- II. Informal Networks: National-Regional-Global Nexus.- The Good Pirates: Moroccan Cinema in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Jamal Bahmad).- Watching the Forbidden: Reception of Banned Films in Iran (Zeydabadi-Nejad).- Why Sories Matter: Jafar Panahi and the Contours of Cinema (Alena Strohmaier).- Informal Translation, Post-Cinema and Global Media Flows (Tessa Dwyer and Ramon Lobato).- III. Informal Aesthetics: Reshaping Cine-Cultures.- Post-Cinematic Distribution Flows. Alternative Content, Sports Films and the (In)stability of the Multiplex Market (Florian Hoof).- Distributing Moving Image Art After Digitization (Erika Balsom).- Cinephilia and Film Culture in the Age of Digital Networks (Malte Hagener).- The Secret Lives of Images (Marc Siegel).- Interview with Kevin B. Lee.- Index