UID:
almahu_9949701661302882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 405 pages)
ISBN:
9789401200035
Series Statement:
Avant garde critical studies ; 23
Content:
This volume on avant-garde film has emerged as part of a wider reassessment of 20th century avant-garde art, literature and film carried out in the framework of a research project at the University of Edinburgh. It paves the way for a fresh assessment of avant-garde film and develops its theory as an integral part of a newly defined conception of the avant-garde as a whole, by closing the gap between theoretical approaches towards the avant-garde as defined on the basis of art and literature on the one hand and avant-garde cinema on the other. It gathers contributions by the most esteemed scholars in the field of avant-garde studies relating to the "classical" avant-garde cinema of the 1920s, to new trends emerging in the 1950s and 1960s and to the impact that innovative technologies have recently had on the further development of avant-garde and experimental film. The contributions reflect the broad range of different moving-image media that make up what we refer to today simply as "film", at the same time as reconsidering the applicability of the label "avant-garde", to offer a comprehensive and updated framework that will prove invaluable to scholars of both Moving Image Studies and Art History disciplines.
Note:
Preliminary material /
,
Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling: The Dream of Universal Language and the Birth of The Absolute Film /
,
Frames and Windows: Visual Space in Abstract Cinema /
,
Paris - Berlin - Moscow: On the Montage Aesthetic in the City Symphony Films of the 1920s /
,
Man Ray's Films: From Dada to Surrealism /
,
On Mário Peixoto's Limite /
,
Dancing with Light: Choreographies of Gender in the Cinema of Germaine Dulac /
,
Mayakovsky: Film: Futurism /
,
The Interiority of Space: Desire and Maya Deren /
,
Stan Brakhage's Film Testament: The Four Faust Films /
,
Light-Play and the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film /
,
Paul Sharits: from Cinematic Movement to Nondirectional Motion /
,
Changes in experimental filmmaking between the 1920s and the 1960s: On Luis Buñuel /
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It's a Kind of Magic: World Construction in French Surrealist and Belgian Magical Realist Fiction and Cinema /
,
Peter Kubelka's Arnulf Rainer /
,
Danish Avant-Garde Filmmakers of the 1960s: Technology, Cross-aesthetics and Politics /
,
French Experimental Cinema: the Figural and the Formless - Nicolas Rey's Terminus for you (1996) and Pip Chodorov's Charlemagne 2: Piltzer (2002) /
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The Stammering Frame: on recent French and Austrian Film Experiments /
,
Inscriptions of Light and The 'Calligraphy of Decay': Volatile Representation in Bill Morrison's Decasia /
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From Video Art to Video Performance: The Work of Ulrike Rosenbach /
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New Media and Feminist Interventions: Valie Export's Medial Anagrams /
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The Paracinema of Anthony McCall and Tony Conrad /
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List of Illustrations /
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Contributors to this volume /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Avant-garde film. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 9042023058
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042023055
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
