Cineworlding: Scenes of Cinematic Research-Creation

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.

Michael B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Music at the MacEwan University Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications, Canada. He is the founding program chair of the MusCan Film Series, serves on the editorial board of the journal Intersections, is the program committee for KISMIF (Keep it Simple, Make it Fast), is on the scientific committee for COMbART, and is an active member of the International Council of Traditional Music Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. He is the author of Playing for Change (2016), Remix and Life Hack in HipHop (2016), and Finding Phish (2020).