William Brown (author)

William Brown
Ph.D
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forWriting, filmmaking
Notable workSupercinema,
Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude
Websitehttps://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[1] 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.[1]

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:[2]

  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)[10]
  7. The New Hope (2015)[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "About". 2 September 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "William Brown". The Conversation. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  3. ^ Sticchi, Francesco (2 October 2015). "Supercinema: Film-Philosophy For the Digital Age". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 13 (4): 452–456. doi:10.1080/17400309.2015.1061408. ISSN 1740-0309. S2CID 194406790.
  4. ^ "REVIEW Supercinema; film-philosophy for the digital age". Reference & Research Book News. 28: 207. 1 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 13 August 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  6. ^ Pavlova, Yoana (10 August 2018). "On William Brown's 'Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude' -". Vague Visages. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  7. ^ Turina, Romana (4 August 2020). "Non-cinema: global digital film-making and the multitude". Transnational Screens. 11 (2): 171–173. doi:10.1080/25785273.2020.1785148. ISSN 2578-5273. S2CID 221055772.
  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. 8 (1): 1–3. ISSN 2416-111X.
  9. ^ "Afterimages (2010)". 5 October 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  10. ^ Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015) (in Czech), retrieved 29 March 2022
  11. ^ "The New Hope (2015)". 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2022.

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