Eyes Upside Down

Visonary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson

Omschrijving

P. Adams Sitney, the leading critic of personal and experimental cinema in America, picks up where he left off in his landmark book, Visionary Film. This all new work offers in-depth analysis of eleven central filmmakers of the American avant-garde cinema, drawing on the aesthetic articulated by Emerson and theorized by John Cage, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein. Introduction: Emersonian Poetics 3 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera 21 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition 48 3 Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence 70 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film 83 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative 98 6 Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe 123 7 Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present the Present in the Past 145 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence 170 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought 197 10 Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto 220 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes 243 12 Frampton's Magellan 259 13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance 271 14 Su Friedrich: "Giving Birth to Myself" 296 15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema 321 16 Beavers's Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture 349 17 Mekas's Retrospection 372 Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration 392 Appendix: Chronology of Films 401 Index 409
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Schrijver
Sitney, P. Adams (Professor of Visual Studies, Professor of Visual Studies, Princeton University)
Titel
Eyes Upside Down
Uitgever
Oxford University Press Inc
Jaar
2008
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
432
Gewicht
771 gr
EAN
9780195331141
Afmetingen
241 x 159 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Hardback

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