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Expanded Cinema

Expanded cinema has remained to be in a subdidiary role in various critical debates, despite the 1970s forward-thinkers' movement of making it take on a more substantial function in the teaching and theorization of film. As early as the start of the 1960s, expanded cinema has already begun weaving its threads of history, adding theorisations and discussions over the course of this time period. This fact debunks the recent assertions that expanded cinema has not been explored enough or has become a lost part of our history. Eugene Youngblood coined the expression "expanded cinema", which describes a unique type of presentation that utilizes mixed-media and multiple screens built around at least one film projectors. In his text,he defines "cinema being expanded" as deviating from the conventional use of a static screening setting by incorporating one or more surfaces or screens and other cinematic media to enable connections with and drawing the audience into