Gene Youngblood (1942-2021) was an internationally known theorist of media arts and politics and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His "Expanded Cinema" (1970), the first book to consider video as an art form, was seminal in establishing media arts as a recognized artistic and scholarly discipline. The term “expanded cinema” has become generic, and the book is considered a classic. Youngblood was also widely known as a pioneering voice in the media democracy movement and taught, wrote, curated, and lectured on media democracy and alternative cinemas since...
