William Brown (author)

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William Brown

Ph.D
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Oxford
Known forWriting, filmmaking
Notable work 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 .

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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]

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