1st Edition
Title Sequences as Paratexts Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation
Limina Anticipation and Recapitulation Problems of Cinematic Paratext2 Narrative Exposition
Pseudo-Independence Intratextuality3 Expositional Modes
The Allegory mode Lexical Expertise4 The Comment mode
Narrative Futurity Intertextuality and Quotation5 The Summary mode
Complex Summary Narrative Restatement6 The Prologue mode
Realist Integration Expository Texts7 CONCLUSIONS
The Paradoxes of Cinematic Paratext Typography and Pseudo-Independence The Ideology of Naturalism::StylizationIndex
Biography
Michael Betancourt is an artist/theorist concerned with digital technology and capitalist ideology. His writing has been translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and been published in magazines such as The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Leonardo, Semiotica, and CTheory. He wrote The ____________ Manifesto, and other books such as The Critique of Digital Capitalism, The History of Motion Graphics, Semiotics and Title Sequences, Synchronization and Title Sequences, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice, and Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing. These publications complement his movies, which have screened internationally at the Black Maria Film Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among many others.
