As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium - and their critique of what it is and has been? In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema, leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, so interrogating the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. This book takes film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposes it with artworks that render cinema as a material object. In the process, it unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have commonly been seen as virtually incompatible, renewing our understanding of each and, more to the point, their interactions.

随着电影体验被纳入当今无处不在的视觉技术中，当代艺术作品将电影从电影屏幕的非物质性中解放出来，并将其与画廊空间中的物理组件分开。如何解读这些对电影媒介的重新表述--以及它们对电影是什么和一直以来的批判？在《通过当代艺术理论化电影》中。在《拓展电影》中，领先的电影理论家考虑了那些融合、重塑和重新呈现电影在空间、经验、存在/不存在、生产和消费、技术、神话、感知、事件和时间性等关键类别中的配置的艺术作品，从而对通过当代艺术引导的电影理论的创造、评估和演变进行审视。本书将电影理论作为移动图像的蓝图，并将其与将电影作为物质对象的艺术作品并置。在这个过程中，它展开了通常被视为几乎不相容的理论和实践之间的复杂关系，更新了我们对两者的理解，更重要的是，它们的互动。