William Brown (author) explained

William Brown
Honorific Suffix:Ph.D
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:University of Oxford
Known For:Writing, filmmaking
Notable Works:Supercinema,
Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude
Website:https://begstealborrowfilms.com/

William Brown is a Vancouver based,[1] British academic, author and filmmaker of low and zero-budget films. He is most notable for his 2013 non-fiction book Supercinema.

Education and academic career

Brown obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2007 and is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton in London, UK.[2] He previously taught at the University of St Andrews.

Publications

Books

He is the author of the 2013 philosophy non-fiction book Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age and co-author the 2010 book Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe[3] [4] which influenced in Paul Virilio's 2016 book Drone Age Cinema.[5]

Bloomsbury published his 2018 book Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude.[6] [7]

He is also the co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (Bloomsbury, 2018).[8]

Book chapters

Films

Brown has made seven zero-budget or micro-budget films through his film company Beg Steal Borrow:

  1. En Attendant Godart (Sight & Sound Films of the Year 2009)
  2. Afterimages (Sight & Sound Films of the Year 2010)[9]
  3. Common Ground (Fest Film Festival 2013; American Online Film Awards Spring Showcase 2014)
  4. China: A User's Manual (FILMS) (2012)
  5. Selfie (2014)
  6. Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015)
  7. The New Hope (2015)[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2010-09-02 . About . 2022-03-29 . en.
  2. Web site: William Brown . 2022-03-29 . The Conversation . en.
  3. Sticchi . Francesco . 2015-10-02 . Supercinema: Film-Philosophy For the Digital Age . New Review of Film and Television Studies . en . 13 . 4 . 452–456 . 10.1080/17400309.2015.1061408 . 194406790 . 1740-0309.
  4. October 1, 2013 . REVIEW Supercinema; film-philosophy for the digital age . Reference & Research Book News . 28 . 207.
  5. Web site: 2017-08-13 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 2022-03-29 . Los Angeles Review of Books . en.
  6. Web site: Pavlova . Yoana . 2018-08-10 . On William Brown's 'Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude' - . 2022-03-29 . Vague Visages . en-US.
  7. Turina . Romana . 2020-08-04 . Non-cinema: global digital film-making and the multitude . Transnational Screens . 11 . 2 . 171–173 . 10.1080/25785273.2020.1785148 . 221055772 . 2578-5273.
  8. Jenner . Joseph . 2021 . William Brown and David H. Fleming, The Squid Cinema From Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia . Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture . English . 8 . 1 . 1–3 . 2416-111X.
  9. Web site: 2012-10-05 . Afterimages (2010) . 2022-03-29 . en.
  10. Web site: 2015-01-27 . The New Hope (2015) . 2022-03-29 . en.

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