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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820232403321

Autore

Sitney P. Adams

Titolo

Eyes upside down : visionary filmmakers and the heritage of Emerson / / P. Adams Sitney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-045021-5

1-281-34224-6

9786611342241

0-19-804411-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Disciplina

791.430973

Soggetti

Experimental films - United States - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Chronology of films": p. 401-408.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Emersonian Poetics; 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera; 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition; 3 Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence; 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film; 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative; 6 Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe; 7 Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present-the Present in the Past; 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence; 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought; 10 Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto; 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes

12 Frampton's Magellan13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance; 14 Su Friedrich: "Giving Birth to Myself "; 15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema; 16 Beavers's Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture; 17 Mekas's Retrospection; Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration; Appendix: Chronology of Films; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Introduction: Emersonian Poetics. 1. Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera. 2. Ian Hugo and Superimposition. 3. Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence. 4. Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film. 5. Hollis Frampton and the Spectre of Narrative. 6. Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe.



7. Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present - The Present in the Past. 8. Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence. 9. Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought. 10. Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto. 11. Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes. 12.