This is called moving : a critical poetics of film / Abigail Child.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Child, Abigail.

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetics.

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Child, Abigail.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writings on film from an award-winning filmmaker and poet. As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970's. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources, ranging from industrial films and documentaries to home movies, vacation photography, and snippets of old B movies. The resulting collages and montages ar

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Poetry in Motion by Tom Gunning; Preface; Sex Talk; Matrix; Interrogations; Notes; Selected Works by the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Selected works by the author": p. [281]-282.

ISBN:

0-8173-8130-9

OCLC:

268793830