Open Spaces: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds of International Public Media - Softcover

Zimmermann, Patricia R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908437138 ISBN 13: 9781908437136

Publisher: St Andrews Film Studies, 2016

Synopsis

With dynamic, short, exploratory essays, Open Spaces: Speculations on Openings, Closings, and Thresholds in International Public Media posits a provisional theoretical concept of opening in independent documentary and experimental work. It examines archives, conferences, convenings, festivals, fi lm, installation, media cultures, new media, performance, symposia, and video art in China, Guinea, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Singapore, USA. A heterogeneous mosaic of people, places, practices, technologies, and ideas, this book asks: Where are the open spaces where technology, people, politics, and dialogue meet? Where are these provisional zones for independent public media? Where do people, places, and technologies converge?

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About the Author

Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, USA and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. She is author of Reel Families: A SocialHistory of Amateur Film; States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies; and Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (with Dale Hudson). She is also co-editor (with Karen Ishizuka) of Mining the Home Movies: Excavations in Histories and Memories.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Andrews Film Studies
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908437138
• ISBN 13: 9781908437136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278