Resources: Books
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Reaching Audiences Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image by Julia Knight and Peter Thomas
 | With a Foreword by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
From Hollywood blockbusters to artists’ film and video, distributors play a vitally important role in getting films in front of audiences. As the link between production and exhibition, their acquisition policies, promotional practices, and level of resources determine what is available, and so help shape the very nature of our film culture. Reaching Audiences is centrally concerned with the distribution practices that have been developed to counter Hollywood’s traditional dominance of the marketplace, and ensure audiences have access to a more diverse moving image culture. Through a series of case studies, the book tracks the inventive distribution and exhibition initiatives developed over the last 40 years by an array of small companies on the periphery of the beleaguered UK film industry. That their practices are now being replicated by a new generation of digital distributors demonstrates that, while the digital ‘revolution’ has rendered those practices far easier to undertake and hugely increased their scope, the key issues in securing a more diverse moving image culture are not technological. Although largely invisible to outsiders, the importance of distributors and distribution networks are widely recognized within the industry, and Reaching Audiences is a key contribution to our understanding of the role they both do and can play.
ISBN 9781841501574, Price £19.95, $40 Available from Intellect Store here.
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Expanded Cinema
 | David Curtis, Al Rees, Duncan White and Steven Ball (eds)
Leading scholars from Europe and North America trace the field from its origins in early abstract film right up to the digital age. Insightful essays explore post-war happenings and live events in Europe and the US, the first experiments with video and multi-media, the fusion of multi-screen installations with dance, sonic art and music and current practices employing digital manipulation and the internet. Featuring new interviews with key artists, the book also makes available previously unpublished artists' texts and manifestos alongside extensive illustrations, making it an essential resource for all those interested in video, performance, film and media art.
Publisher: Tate Publishing (May 2011) ISBN 978 1 85437 974 0, Price £19.99 Available from Tate store here.
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A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004 by David Curtis
 | In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in 2004, 1996, 1999 and 1997 respectively) for work made on video. This fin-de-sicle explosion of activity represents the culmination of a long history of work by less well-known artists and experimental film-makers.
Hardback ISBN/EAN: 9781844570959, £60.00 Paperback ISBN/EAN: 9781844570966, £25.00 Available from BFI store here.
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Experimental Film and Video - Edited by Dr. Jackie Hatfield
| For artists working with moving image in the late twentieth century, the past forty years... more>
View a pdf of the book jacket here. ISBN: 0 86196 664 3 (Paperback) John Libbey Publishing, Box 276, Eastleigh SO50 5YS, UK e-mail: here; web site: http://www.johnlibbey.com Orders: Book Representation & Distribution Ltd. here
Distributed in Australasia by Elsevier Australia, 30?52 Smidmore Street, Marrickville NSW 2204,Australia. http://www.elsevier.com.au Distributed in Japan by United Publishers Services Ltd, 1-32-5 Higashi-shinagawa,Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan. email |
A History of Video Art - by Chris Meigh-Andrews
 | ISBN: 1845202198
Published November 2006 by Berg, Oxford More Information here. |
Diverse practices: a critical reader on British video art - by Julia Knight
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"The past three decades have seen the rapid and vibrant growth of video art in Britain, but there has been little detailed analysis or critical recognition of this work. This book attempts to redress this imbalance by bringing together a collection of essays that discuss various aspects of British video art within a range of frameworkshistorical, theoretical, critical, and chronological. The essays deal with topics such as television interventions, video installation, feminist video work, video art criticism, and computer animation."
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Analogue: Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88)
| Exhibition catalogue edited by Catherine Elwes and Chris Meigh-Andrews
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Video Art: A Guided Tour - by Catherine Elwes
 | Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked often unknown. Video Art, a Guided Tour is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history. Elwes, herself a practicing artist and pioneer of early video, traces the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the '60s and '70s to today's digital technology, from early experiments in 'real time' to the 'new narrative' movement of the '80s. She also examines video's love-hate relationship with television. Artists discussed include, amongst others, Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover, The Duvet Brothers, Dara Birnbaum, Bill Viola, Pipilloti Rist, David Hall, Stuart Marshall, Stan Douglas, Smith & Stewart, Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood. Elwes brings to life the excitement and political fervour of video art's early days and follows its journey to its current status as the default medium for contemporary art.
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