{"id":1137,"date":"2007-12-11T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2007-12-11T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:36:31","slug":"cinematic_reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/cinematic_reading\/","title":{"rendered":"cinematic reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random House Canada underwrote a series of short videos riffing on Douglas Coupland&#8217;s new novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307356277\"><i>The Gum Thief<\/i><\/a> produced by the slick Toronto studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crushinc.com\/\">Crush Inc.<\/a> These were forwarded to me by <a href=\"\/itinplace\">Alex Itin<\/a>, who described watching them as a kind of &#8220;cinematic reading.&#8221; Watch, you&#8217;ll see what he means. There are three basic storylines, each consisting of three clips. This one, from the &#8220;Glove Pond&#8221; sequence, is particularly clever in its use of old magazines:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qw-fy39OmXI&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qw-fy39OmXI&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nAll the videos are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crushinc.com\/gum_thief\/\">here<\/a> at Crush Inc. Or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DougCoupland\">Coupland&#8217;s YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random House Canada underwrote a series of short videos riffing on Douglas Coupland&#8217;s new novel The Gum Thief produced by the slick Toronto studio Crush Inc. These were forwarded to me by Alex Itin, who described watching them as a kind of &#8220;cinematic reading.&#8221; Watch, you&#8217;ll see what he means. There are three basic storylines, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,192,196,1546,1576,1956],"tags":[3000],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-books","category-booktrailers","category-publishing","category-reading","category-video","tag-video-books-publishing-booktrailers-animation-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}