CineWorlding: Scenes of Cinematic Research-Creation

Product Description Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely impacted social science scholarship. Mixing existential phenomenological fiction about social science digital cinema research practice followed by theoretical reflection and discussion of methods, this book has emerged from a decade-long inquiry into cineworlding and a desire to help others produce digital media to engage creatively with the digital networks that surround us. About the Author Michael B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Music at the MacEwan University Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and an award-winning filmmaker. His research areas include popular music scenes, screen production research, ethnographic film theory, critical theory, and cine-ethnomusicology. Michael is the founding program chair of the MusCan Film Series held annually at the Canadian University Music Society conference, serves on the editorial board of the journal Intersections, the program committee for KISMIF (Keep it Simple, Make it Fast) an international conference on DIY culture, the scientific committee for COMbART, an international conference on art and activism, and is an active member of the International Council of Traditional Music Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. He has published eight films and three books including Playing for Change: Music Festivals as Arts-based Community Learning and Development (2016), Remix and Life Hack in HipHop: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Popular Music (2016), and Finding Phish (2020).