After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation

Erika Balsom

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

After Uniqueness

A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation

Erika Balsom

In the series Film and Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.7312/bals17692

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About this book

A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"

Author / Editor information

Erika Balsom is senior lecturer in film studies and liberal arts at King's College London. She is the author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013) and the coeditor of Documentary Across Disciplines (2016).

Reviews

Bruce Jenkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago:
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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Copy Rites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Promise and Threat of Reproducibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. 8 mm and the “Blessings of Books and Records” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. Bootlegging Experimental Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4. Copyright and the Commons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
5. The Limited Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
6. The Event of Projection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
7. A Cinematic Bayreuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
8. Transmission, from the Movie-Drome to Vdrome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 27 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9780231543125