Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

by John Powers

Book Overview

The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197683398
• ISBN13: 9780197683392
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"