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 and ebook 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