Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 An Aesthetics of the Commons -- The Aesthetic Commons -- From Columbus to Indigenous Media -- First Peoples, First Features -- The Storytelling Commons -- Revisionist Adaptation and the Literary Commons -- Cultural Indigenization -- The Archival Commons and the Ab-original Musical -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Upside-Down World of the Carnivalesque -- The People's Second Life -- Sacred Parody -- Festive-Revolutionary Practices -- Unruly Women -- Polymorphous Celebrations -- Stand-up Comedy and Nuclear Catastrophe -- Contemporary Fools -- Pedagogic Humor and Provocation -- Tropes of Social Inversion -- Offside Cinema -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Political Modernism and Its Discontents -- The Two Avant-Gardes -- The Brechtian Legacy -- Beyond Brecht -- The Affective-Corporeal Turn -- The Rediscovery of Pleasure -- The Legacy of the V-Effect -- Political Cinema in the Age of the Posts -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Transmogrification of the Negative -- An Aesthetic of Mistakes -- Third Cinema: From Hunger to Garbage -- Sublime Detritus -- The Recombinant Sublime -- Anthropophagic Modernism -- Situationist Détournement -- Culture Jamming -- Neo-Situationism and the Aesthetics of Failure -- Media Jujitsu -- The New Kino-Eye: Vision Machines -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Hybrid Variations on a Documentary Theme -- The Fiction-Documentary Continuum -- Murderous Reenactments -- The Mediatic Spectrum -- From Representation to Self-Presentation -- The Strategic Advantages of Hybridization -- Performative Films -- The Essay Film and Mockumentaries -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Hollywood Aristotelianism, the Fractured Chronotope, and the Musicalization of Cinema -- Hollywood Aristotelianism: the Orthodox Chronotope -- Alternatives to Aristotle: the Menippean Strain.

Pop Culture Anachronism and the Chronotope of the Road -- Baroque Modernism and the Marvelous American Real -- Trance-Modernism -- Contrapuntal Variations -- Transformative Becomings -- The Shape-Shiftings of Popular Culture -- Metaphysical Cine-Poetry -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Aesthetic/Political Innovation in the Digital Era -- Beyond Accelerationism: Digital Montage and Duration -- Tools of Engagement: Interactivity and Digital Détournement -- IRL Subversions: Tactical Media and Digital Materialism -- In Guise of a Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.