Besides the Screen ― Moving Images Through Distribution, Promotion and Curation

Besides the Screen seeks to make an intervention into film and screen studies by examining and considering the elements of cinematic experience, production and dissemination that exist beside the screen. New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen; they also promote the reorganization of its logic of distribution, modes of consumption and viewing regimes. This publication speculates about the changes in modes of accessing, distributing, storing and promoting moving images and how they might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography. In doing so, Besides the Screen examines three key themes: distribution, promotion and curation. The volume's main argument is that we must examine those practices that exist besides the screen if we are to consider fully how filmic experience is mediated by various technological and societal changes in the early decades of the twenty-first century.

Virginia Crisp has a PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths College, UK. She is the author of Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals (forthcoming, Palgrave).

Gabriel Menotti Gonring works as a critic and curator. He is currently a lecturer in Multimedia at UFES, Brazil. He has a PhD in Media from Goldsmiths College, UK, and another from PUC-SP, Brazil. He is the author of Atraves da Sala Escura – Espacos de Exibicao Cinematografica e VJing (2012).