The State of Post-Cinema [electronic resource] : Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination / edited by Malte Hagener, Vinzenz Hediger, Alena Strohmaier.

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.

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 "high end" of the most advanced technology; discussions usually focus on performance capture and digital 3-D, 4-K projection and industrial light & magic. Here, the authors' approach is focused on the "low-end" of the circulation of filmic images. This includes informal networks of exchange and transaction, such as p2p-networks, video platforms, so called "piracy" with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa, where political and social transformations make new forms of circulation and presentation particularly visible.