‘The Sprawl of Entropy’: Cinema, waste, and obsolescence in the 1960s and 1970s

Nardelli, Matilde

‘The Sprawl of Entropy’: Cinema, waste, and obsolescence in the 1960s and 1970s

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Nardelli, Matilde ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-1024 (2013) ‘The Sprawl of Entropy’: Cinema, waste, and obsolescence in the 1960s and 1970s. NECSUS, 2 (2). pp. 431-446.

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Abstract

The following discussion broaches the relation between cinema and waste not so much by addressing examples of cinema about waste, but by presenting cinema itself as a kind of waste. Such an approach is in part prompted by current debates about the obsolescence of cinema, be this obsolescence considered in strictly material terms – i.e. the imminent end of the film-based technology from which the medium derived its traditional definition – or from the (differently material) perspective of cinema as a socio-cultural practice, a mode of producing, circulating, and consuming moving images largely forand in the cinema theatre.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.5117/NECSUS2013.2.NARD
Keywords:	cinema, entropy, waste
Subjects:	Film and television > Filmmaking
Date Deposited:	20 Oct 2025
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/12168

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