Technology and the making of experimental film culture / John Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, John (College teacher), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Production and direction--Technological innovations.

Experimental films.

Experimental films--History.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--Technological innovations.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture' examines how the avant-garde embraced small-gauge media technologies such as the Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories and low-budget optical printers, investing them with meaning and value. This book uses technology as a lens for examining the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into practice and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and artistic commitments and communities.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Proscriptive Orientations

Plates

1. The Twitters of the Machine: The Bolex H-16 Camera in and out of Control

2. Untrue Truisms: The Paradoxes of Reversal Film Stock

3. A Lab of One's Own: Personal Cinema Invades the Film Laboratory

4. Holding the Jalopy Together: The Optical Printer and DIY Culture

Epilogue: Midwives for Existence

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-768342-8

0-19-768340-1

OCLC:

1378937723