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Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

By Gene Youngblood, Fordham University Press, $34.95

GENE YOUNGBLOOD’S OPUS EXPANDED CINEMA IS A manifesto and a prophecy, at times clairvoyant in its claims for the future, at others ridiculous in its bumptious rhapsodies. It is a young man’s book, sourced from a series beginning in 1967.

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