Italian Experimental Cinema and Moving-Image Art: New Paths, New Perspectives (Hardcover)

Part 1. Towards an Italian Experimental Cinema: Pioneers, Early Theory and the Science of the Experimental.- Chapter 1. Futurism and Cinema: A Real and Dreamlike World (Michael Syrimis).- Chapter 2. The "Experimental" in Early Scientific Film (Maria Ida Bernabei).- Chapter 3. Everything is Experimental. "Cinema sperimentale" as a Revolution (1934-1943) (Andrea Mariani ).- Part 2. Expanding Cinema Among Industrial, Artistic and Amateur Practices.- Chapter 4. Paths of Experimentation in Italian Industrial Cinema: Olivetti's Utility Films (Federico Pierotti).- Chapter 5. Spaghetti Expanded. A brief history of Italian Expanded Cinema (1967-1981) (Jennifer Malvezzi).- Chapter 6. Mapping Musical Practices in/for Underground Experimental Film (1960-1979) (Alessandro Cecchi).- Part 3. The Network is the Medium: Television, Video and Pioneers of the Digital Age.- Chapter 7. Art and Television in Italy: A Troubled History (Francesco Spampinato).- Chapter 8. Uncovering Italian Early Video Art: Pioneers, Exhibitions and Centres (Laura Leuzzi).- Chapter 9. Italian computer art in the 1980s (Paola Lagonigro).- Chapter 10. Fade out: Between Cinema and performing arts (Flavia Dalila D'Amico).- Part 4. Thinking Outside the Box: The Political Places of Media.- Chapter 11. Radical ecologies and experimental videos in the early 1990s (Diego Cavallotti).- Chapter 12. Working at the Margins: notes on the Cinematic in Italian 21st Century Artistic Practice (Vincenzo Estremo).- Chapter 13. Amateur/Experimental. The restoration of Italian experimental and artist cinema (Paolo Simoni).- Chapter 14. Italian Film Artisans Today. Contemporary Artist-run Labs and Analog Filmmakers (Rossella Catanese).- Part 5. Focus on Personalities.- Chapter 15. Rhythms of vision. Three experimental films by Corrado D'Errico (Denis Lotti).- Chapter 16. "Experimental cinema is not an end in itself". Francesco Pasinetti's role at the beginning of experimentalism (Carlotta Guido).- Chapter 17. Ragghianti's Cinematisme. The Critofilms Between Painting and Architecture (Marie Rebecchi).- Chapter 18. A Cinema of Research: Bruno Munari and Monte Olimpino (Matilde Nardelli).- Chapter 19. What's Happening? Antonello Branca and the Documentary as a Happening Form (Milo Adami).- Chapter 20. Gianfranco Brebbia, the cineamatore territory (Dominique Willoughby).- Chapter 21. Carmelo Bene: The Agitator (Adrian Martin).- Chapter 22. Alberto Grifi and a new grammar of vision (Clizia Centorrino).- Chapter 23. Cine-TV Experiments: La magnifica ossessione, and Beyond (Leonardo Cabrini).- Chapter 24. Rethinking Filippo Panseca. Technological experimentation and esthetics of communication between the Sixties and the Seventies. (Valentino Catricala).- Chapter 25. Politics of the experimental image. Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian (Miriam De Rosa).- Chapter 26. Affective Encounters and Experimental Approaches in the Films of Alina Marazzi (Rosanna Maule).- Chapter 27. Sandro Del Rosario's Sguardo (Marco Bellano).- Chapter 28. Film and the Portal. The Experimental Animation of Leonardo Carrano. (Giacomo Ravesi).- Chapter 29. Printing Cinema? Printed Matter, Exhibition and Film in Rosa Barba's work (Adeena Mey).- Chapter 30. Visual Aesthetics of Hacktivism: Paolo Cirio (Carolina Fernandez Castrillo).- Chapter 31. Timeless screens. The Video Pictorialism of Marcantonio Lunardi (Pasquale Fameli).- Chapter 32. Between culture and technologies: Karmachina (Laura Cesaro).