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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Essay about the distribution of expanded cinemas using rental archival records from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative?! Count me in! Look forward to reading Josh Guilford’s “Projection Instructions + the Distribution of Expanded Cinema” in new issue of jcmsjournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1353/cj.2...

Abstract of essay “Projection Instructions and the Distribution of Expanded Cinema” by Josh Guilford.

This article examines expanded cinema's relationship to distribution by analyzing the rental histories of early works of expanded cinema that are distributed through the Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and which were designed to circulate with written projection instructions. The FMC's archival records demonstrate that projection instructions enabled these works to travel to a range of exhibition venues across the continental United States during expanded cinema's period of emergence. Examining these records reveals new aspects of expanded cinema's history, geography, and politics.

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