Review: Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era, edited by Dominique Chateau and José Moure

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Book Review| June 01 2021 Review: Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era, edited by Dominique Chateau and José Moure Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era, edited by Dominique Chateau and José Moure. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 336 pp./$138.00 (hb). Holly Willis Holly Willis Holly Willis is a professor in the division of Media Arts + Practice in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2021) 48 (2): 152–156. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.152 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Holly Willis; Review: Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era, edited by Dominique Chateau and José Moure. Afterimage 1 June 2021; 48 (2): 152–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.152 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAfterimage Search In their introduction to an eclectic collection of nineteen essays titled Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era, editors Dominique Chateau and José Moure call attention to the challenges posed by the prefix “post-,” highlighting its current ubiquity and acknowledging its slipperiness, before going on to announce the ways in which this volume can be differentiated from the 2016 collection of essays titled Post-cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film, published by Reframe Books and edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. Specifically, Chateau and Moure point to what they deem a significant shift in their subtitle and in the book’s linkage to post-art. They write that “in the subtitle to this volume ‘cinema’ seems to be rid of the embarrassing ‘post-’” (13), which they immediately admit is contradicted by the book’s main title, namely “Post-cinema.” Highlighting that they have avoided “post-cinema” in the subtitle while it constitutes the book’s actual title... You do not currently have access to this content.