Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021)^[1][2] was an American theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His best-known book, Expanded Cinema, was the first to consider video as an art form and has been credited with helping to legitimate the fields of computer art and media arts.^[3][4] He is also known for his pioneering work in the media democracy movement, a subject on which he taught, wrote, and lectured, beginning in 1967.^[4][5][6]

For ten years in the 1960s, Gene Youngblood was a journalist for newspapers, television, and radio in Los Angeles. He was a reporter and film critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (1962–1967), a reporter for KHJ-TV, arts commentator for KPFK, and from 1967 to 1970 he was associate editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Free Press,^[7] the first and largest of the underground newspapers of that era.

Youngblood has held several academic posts in his career, but is best known for his time with the Film/Video School at California Institute of the Arts and for helping to found the Moving Image Arts department at the College of Santa Fe.

• Youngblood, Gene. Secession From the Broadcast. Jean-Jacques Martinod, ed. Los Cerrillos, NM: Evidence House, 2020. English + Spanish Print.
• Youngblood, Gene and R. Buckminster Fuller. Expanded Cinema., 2020. Fordham University 50th Anniversary edition. Print.
• Youngblood, G. "Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control." Millennium Film Journal. (2013): 174–189. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene, Pier L. Capucci, and Simonetta Fadda. Expanded Cinema. Bologna: CLUEB, 2013. Italian edition of Expanded Cinema. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene. Cine Expandido. Buenos Aires: EDUNTREF, Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero, 2012. Spanish edition of Expanded Cinema. Print.
• Vasulka, Steina. Steina. Santa Fe, N.M: SITE Santa Fe, 2008. Intw. by Gene Youngblood. Print.
• Shaw, Jeffrey, Peter Weibel and Gene Youngblood. "Cinema and the Code," Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003. Print.
• Godard, Jean-Luc, and David Sterritt. Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene. Metaphysical Structuralism: The Videotapes of Bill Viola. Santa Monica: Voyager Press, 1986. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene. "The Redemption of the Amateur," L.A. Weekly, Dec. 13–19, 1985, Vol. 8 No. 3. Los Angeles: Stern Pub, 1978. Internet resource.
• Youngblood, Gene. "Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image" Is Journal. Los Angeles, CA: International Synergy, 1986. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene. "The Mass Media and the Future of Desire," Coevolution Quarterly: No. 16. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1977. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. Introd. by R.. Buckminster Fuller. New York: Dutton, 1970. Print.
• Youngblood, Gene. "The Videosphere," Radical Software, Vol. 1, No. 1. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, 1970. Internet resource.
• Youngblood, Gene. World Game. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Print.