Blockbuster
INCITE Journal of Experimental Media #5
2014 – 2015
"Even when we don't want to address the megaplex, we already have. We live in ever-more intimate proximity to impersonal fame and distant celebrity. Los Angeles doesn't just play itself, as Thom Andersen said in 2003, today the city asserts itself: it is popular, atomized, and always in dispersal. And now it's in INCITE too – though even in absence, the presence of Hollywood was here all along." – Excerpt from Peter Nowogrodzki's "Editorial Statement"
Editor: Peter Nowogrodzki
Contributors: Sam Axelrod, Christina Battle, Colin Beckett, Roger Beebe, Giampaolo Bianconi, Ian Cheng, Pablo de Ocampo, Brian Droitcour, Walter Forsberg, Anna Ialeggio, Gregory Kalliche, John Klacsmann, Norman Klein, Oliver Laric, Kevin B. Lee, Olia Lialina, Jodie Mack, Ian Page, Lucy Raven, Kalan Sherrard, Amy Sloper
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| Table of Contents |
| Peter Nowogrodzki | Editorial Statement |
| Blockbuster Effects |
| Walter Forsberg | B.B. D.F. |
| Roger Beebe | Blockbuster |
| John Klacsmann | Not Blockbuster |
| Jodie Mack | Variations on Blockbusters |
| Amy Sloper | Lab Bags |
| The Hollywood Psyche |
| Colin Beckett | Finding a Liberal Form: Oppenheimer, Morris, Godmilow |
| Christina Battle | Hollywood Movies, Media Hype, and the Contemporary Survivalist Movement: An Appropriated Study |
| Giampaolo Bianconi | Power Sources: Energy in Today's Superhero Blockbuster |
| Ian Page | Like Literally Driving Without a Steering Wheel at the Speed of Light on a Road That May or May Not Exist and Apparently We've Hit Some Things Already: A Conversation with Norman Klein |
| Kevin B. Lee | Pre-making a Chinese Hollywood Blockbuster: Transcultural Flows and the Culture of Anticipation in Transformers: Age of Extinction |
| Audience vs. User |
| Brian Droitcour | Yelp Reviews |
| Sam Axelrod | Netflix Comments |
| Olia Lialina | Turing Complete User |
| Kalan Sherrard | Image Dump |
| Movie Consequences: The Reality in Illusion |
| Oliver Laric | Versions |
| Lucy Raven | Deep Background |
| Anna Ialeggio | The Game of the Future |
| Ian Cheng | Screenshots |
| Gregory Kalliche | On Mimetic Polyalloy |
| Pablo de Ocampo | Unseen Cinema: Lucy Raven's Curtains |
