William Brown (author)
William Brown is a Vancouver based, British academic, author and filmmaker of low and zero-budget films. He is most notable for his 2013 non-fiction book "Supercinema". Education and academic career. Brown obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2007 and is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton in London, UK. He previously taught at the University of St Andrews. Publications. Books. He is the author of the 2013 philosophy non-fiction book "Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age" and co-author the 2010 book "Moving People, Moving Images : Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe" which influenced in Paul Virilio's 2016 book "Drone Age Cinema." Bloomsbury published his 2018 book "Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude." He is also the co-author of "The Squid Cinema from Hell:" Kinoteuthis Infernalis "and the Emergence of Chthulumedia" (Bloomsbury, 2018). Films. Brown has made seven zero-budget or micro-budget films through his film company "Beg Steal Borrow":