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Eyes upside down : visionary filmmakers and the heritage of Emerson / P. Adams Sitney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sitney, P. Adams.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental films--United States--History and criticism.
- Experimental films.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Influence.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (432 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Introduction: Emersonian Poetics. 1. Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera. 2. Ian Hugo and Superimposition. 3. Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence. 4. Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film. 5. Hollis Frampton and the Spectre of Narrative. 6. Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe. 7. Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present - The Present in the Past. 8. Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence. 9. Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought. 10. Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto. 11. Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes. 12.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Emersonian Poetics; 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera; 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition; 3 Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence; 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film; 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative; 6 Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe; 7 Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present-the Present in the Past; 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence; 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought; 10 Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto; 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes
- 12 Frampton's Magellan13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance; 14 Su Friedrich: "Giving Birth to Myself "; 15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema; 16 Beavers's Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture; 17 Mekas's Retrospection; Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration; Appendix: Chronology of Films; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Chronology of films": p. 401-408.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045021-5
- 1-281-34224-6
- 9786611342241
- 0-19-804411-9
- OCLC:
- 476241538
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