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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820550103321

Titolo

Stan Brakhage : filmmaker / / edited by David E. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-58184-8

9786612581847

1-4399-0529-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Wide angle books

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesDavid E. <1945->

Disciplina

791.4302/33/092

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stan Brakhage: The Activity of His Nature / David E. James; Stan Brakhage / Parker Tyler; Brakhage. Breer. Menken. The Pure Poets of Cinema / Jonas Mekas; Brakhage and Rilke / Jerome Hill; On The Art of Vision / Robert Kelly; The First Time I Heard the Word ""Brakhage"" / Edward Dorn; Camera Lucida/Camera Obscura / Annette Michelson; Brakhage Memoir / James Tenney; Amateurs in the Industry Town: Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol in Los Angeles / David E. James; It Is Painting / Carolee Schneemann; Brakhage: Poesis / R. Bruce Elder

Recollections of Stan Brakhage / Jonas Mekas The Roman Numeral Series / Nicky Hamlyn; Letter re: Stan / Bruce Baillie; Stan Brakhage, Agrimoniac / Craig Dworkin; Brakhage Package / Chick Strand; Brakhage's Faustian Psychodrama / P. Adams Sitney; Stan Brakhage: American Visionary / Willie Varela; Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics / Tyrus Miller; Notes on Sincerity and Irony / Abigail Child; Becoming Dark with Excess of Light: The Vancouver Island Films / Paul Arthur; As I Am Writing This Today / Phil Solomon; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements, and reminiscences about the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of nearly four hundred short films, including Dog Star Man, Parts I-IV, and the Roman Numeral



Series, Brakhage is widely recognized as one of the great artists of the medium. His shorts eschewed traditional narrative structure, and his innovations in fast cutting, hand-held camerawork, and multiple super impositions created an unprecedentedly rich texture of images that provided the vocabulary