Screen writings : scripts and texts by independent filmmakers / / [edited by] Scott MacDonald

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995
• Edizione: Reprint 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 339 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 791.43/75
• Soggetto topico: Motion picture plays - History and criticism; Experimental films - History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Motion picture authorship
• Altri autori: MacDonaldScott <1942->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Yoko Ono -- William Greaves -- Hollis Frampton -- Laura Mulvey/Peter Wollen -- James Benning -- Michael Snow -- Peter Rose -- Morgan Fisher -- Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Su Friedrich -- Ann Marie Fleming -- Yvonne Rainer -- Distribution Sources -- Selected Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: "Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors."--Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental "language art." It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script is introduced and contextualized by MacDonald; a filmography and a bibliography round out the volume. This is a readable--often quite funny--literature that investigates differences between seeing and reading. Represented are avant-garde classics such as Hollis Frampton's Poetic Justice and Zorns Lemma and Morgan Fisher's Standard Gauge, and William Greaves's recently rediscovered Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. Michael Snow turns film loose on language in So Is This; Peter Rose turns language loose on theory in Pressures of the Text. Some of the most influential feminist filmscripts of recent decades--Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx, Su Friedrich's Gently Down the Stream, Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage, Yvonne Rainer's Privilege--confirm this book's importance for readers in gender and cultural studies as well as for filmmakers and admirers of experimental writing, independent cinema, and the visual arts in general.
• Titolo autorizzato: Screen writings
• ISBN: 0-520-91311-6; 0-585-37520-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248208903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno