The paperback edition of Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship is now out with Edinburgh University Press.
The book was first published in hardback in 2024, and is now held in over 837 libraries worldwide. A Chinese translation is in the works.
If you missed the hardback — or would like an affordable copy to lend, annotate, or press into someone’s hands — this is your moment.
Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader key new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture.
The book launched at KCL’s AI Festival 2024 to a packed room of 90+ people, was recorded as an episode of the Video Essay Podcast with Will DiGravio, and had a second launch at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2025, including a live radio interview broadcast nationally.
See also
- New book! (the original hardback launch note)
- Cinema and Machine Vision profile — full profile, endorsements, and press
- Book giveaway — the Video Essay Podcast episode and giveaway
- Cinema and Machine Vision en la Ibero — the Mexico City launch
- Judge a book by its cover