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Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker(Wide Angle Books)

Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker(Wide Angle Books)


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Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements and reminiscences about the celebrate filmmaker, who died in 2003. The producer of some four hundred films, he is widely recognized as one of the great artists of the medium. His innovations in fast cutting, hand-held camerawork, and multiple superimpositions together created an unprecedentedly rich texture of images that provided the vocabulary for the explosion of independent filmmaking in the 1960s. His use of his own life and family as his subject matter and then later, his turn to hand-painted abstract films, inspired generations of filmmakers who refused the rewards of the mainstream film industry and instead tried to make cinema an artform directed by its own integrity and the vision of human emancipation. The essays in this book, by historians and filmmakers and other artists, describe Brakhage's contributions to the rich history of filmmaking in the world.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Stan Brakhage: The Activity of His Nature - David E. James2. Stan Brakhage - Parker Tyler3. Brakhage. Breer. Menken. The Pure Poets of Cinema - Jonas Mekas4. Brakhage and Rilke - Jerome Hill5. On The Art of Vision - Robert Kelly6. The First Time I Heard the Word "Brakhage" - Edward Dorn7. Camera Lucida/Camera Obscura - Annette Michelson8. Brakhage Memoir - James Tenney9. Amateurs in the Industry Town: Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol in Los Angeles - David E. James10. It Is Painting - Carolee Schneemann11. Brakhage: Poesis - R. Bruce Elder12. Recollections of Stan Brakhage - Jonas Mekas13. The Roman Numeral Series - Nicky Hamlyn14. Letter re: Stan - Bruce Baillie15. Stan Brakhage, Agrimoniac - Craig Dworkin16. Brakhage Package - Chick Strand17. Brakhage's Faustian Psychodrama - P. Adams Sitney18. Stan Brakhage: American Visionary - Willie Varela19. Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics - Tyrus Miller20. Notes on Sincerity and Irony - Abigail Child21. Becoming Dark With Excess of Light: The Vancouver Island Films - Paul Arthur22. As I Am Writing This Today - Phil SolomonContributorsIndex

About the Author :
David E. James is Professor in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. He is the editor of The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in Los Angeles (Temple) and author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. Contributors: Paul Arthur, Montclair State University; Bruce Baillie; Abigail Child; Edward Dorn; Craig Dworkin; R. Bruce Elder; Nicky Hamlyn, Kent Institute of Art and Design; Jonas Mekas; Tyrus Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz; Carolee Schneemann; P. Adams Sitney, Princeton University; Phil Solomon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chick Strand; James Tenney, California Institute of the Arts; Willie Varela, University of Texas at El Paso; and the editor.

Review :
"An anthology praising perhaps the best-known and most widely-celebrated American avant-garde filmmaker." Communications Booknotes Quarterly "A pity that Brakhage did not live to see the book, because the essayists listed in the table of contents read like a Who's Who of the avant-garde. All these folks came to praise Brakhage, not to bury him.Contemporary film student need to know that such an abstract visual talent as Brakhage could succeed in the US, and therein lies the book's value. Recommended." Choice


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  • ISBN-13: 9781592132713
  • Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1592132715
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jul 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Wide Angle Books
  • Sub Title: Filmmaker


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