Columbia University Press
After Uniqueness
About this book
Author / Editor information
Reviews
Balsom is at the forefront of a generation of scholars who focus on the history of film's relationship to the other arts—an enterprise that she terms, in the spirit of André Bazin, 'Where Is Cinema?' Her new volume is a timely addition that addresses the ubiquity of screens in contemporary art and examines, with her signature precision, the inner workings of the networks through which cinema now circulates. Indispensable reading!
David James, University of Southern California:
Once only mechanically reproducible, all kinds of moving image art are now digitally copied and disseminated in innumerable apparatuses that were unimaginable forty years ago. Ranging in its references from eighteenth-century printmaking to UbuWeb, Balsom's brilliant and beautifully written book is a tour de force of scholarship and critical analysis that investigates the new forms of liberation and of control that ubiquitous copying offers. Its spirited intellection is exhilarating.
Francesco Casetti, Yale University:
If moving images are now consumed on more platforms than ever, what networks do they traverse to reach their audiences? What factors intervene to enable or restrict these passages? In After Uniqueness, Erika Balsom explores strategies that have changed our conceptual framework of how circulation functions today—what we mean by 'copy,' 'reproduction,' 'authenticity,' and 'authorship.' To explore this is to understand what moving images represent in our current world. An original, elegant, and impressively researched work.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Acknowledgments
vii -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction: Copy Rites
1 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1. The Promise and Threat of Reproducibility
25 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2. 8 mm and the “Blessings of Books and Records”
54 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3. Bootlegging Experimental Film
81 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4. Copyright and the Commons
106 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5. The Limited Edition
127 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6. The Event of Projection
166 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
7. A Cinematic Bayreuth
192 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
8. Transmission, from the Movie-Drome to Vdrome
219 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
237 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Bibliography
271 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
285