03028nam 22005535 450 991045997290332120210429201552.00-231-53847-210.7312/kell16220(CKB)3710000000269900(EBL)1824555(StDuBDS)EDZ0001076042(DE-B1597)458386(OCoLC)979751967(DE-B1597)9780231538473(MiAaPQ)EBC1824555(EXLCZ)99371000000026990020190708d2014 fg 0engur||#||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierMaya Deren Incomplete Control /Sarah KellerNew York, NY :Columbia University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (297 p.)Film and Culture SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-16221-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. Unfinished Business --ONE. Done and Undone --TWO. Toward Completion and Control --THREE. Haiti --FOUR. Full Circle --Conclusion In Completing a Th ought, A Last Word (for now . . . ) --Notes --Index --BackmatterMaya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940's and 1950's. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic movements and films. Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work and her numerous unfinished projects, arguing Deren's overarching aesthetic is founded on principles of incompletion, contingency, and openness. Combining the contrasting approaches of documentary, experimental, and creative film, Deren created a wholly original experience for film audiences that disrupted the subjectivity of cinema, its standards of continuity, and its dubious facility with promoting categories of realism. This critical retrospective reflects on the development of Deren's career and the productive tensions she initiated that continue to energize film.Film and Culture SeriesExperimental filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismIndependent filmmakersUnited StatesElectronic books.Experimental filmsHistory and criticism.Independent filmmakers791.430233092AP 54100rvkKeller Sarah801310DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910459972903321Maya Deren2462962UNINA