A body of vision : representations of the body in recent film and poetry / R. Bruce Elder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elder, Bruce (R. Bruce)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in motion pictures.

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

viii, 400 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997.

Contents:

With Gratitude v

The Human Dilemma 21

The Anxious Body of Shame, Disgust, or Appalling Death: Films by Bruce Conner 24

The Troubling Body of Sexual Difference: Williard Maas's The Geography of the Body 36

The Complexities of Identification

Walter Gutman and the Body Remade as Whole 65

The Body as Sacred

The Films of James Broughton, Especially The Golden Positions 70

The Body and the Cosmos

The Films of Ed Emshwiller 85

First Digression: The Theory of Transformation and Its Importance to Understanding the Uniqueness of Artistic Meaning 97

Ed Emshwiller's Mixed Mode of Cinema Contrasted with the Lyrical Film 116

The Body as the Universe in Stan Brakhage's Early Films 140

The Body Electric: Of Wilhelm Reich and Antonin Artaud

Laying the Groundwork for Carolee Schneemann's Body Art 143

Second Digression: A Mystical View of the Body under the Pervasive Influence of Gnosticism

Laying the Groundwork for Leonard Cohen's Writings on the Body and Carolee Schneemann's Films and Performances 191

Leonard Cohen's Gnosticism and Its Influence on His Conception of the Body 210

The Influence of Gnosticism on the Writings of Antonin Artaud 223

The Body of Gnostic Energy in the Work of Carolee Schneemann 233

The Body of Transcendental Flesh

The Films of James Herbert 276

The Cognitive Body

The Films of Amy Greenfield and Another View of the Films of Stan Brakhage 294

The Pneumatic Body

The Films of Andrew Noren 316.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0889202761 :

OCLC:

36044593