Maya Deren : Incomplete Control / Sarah Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Sarah, author.

Series:

Film and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deren, Maya--Criticism and interpretation.

Deren, Maya.

Experimental films--United States--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Independent filmmakers--United States.

Independent filmmakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Maya 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.

Contents:

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

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231538473

0231538472

OCLC:

979751967