Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delpeut, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019.

Mekas, Jonas.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--Biography.

Motion pictures.

Lithuanian American artists--United States.

Lithuanian American artists.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Lithuania.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : DoppelHouse Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekas's memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile. Stemming from a New York Review of Books article by a young Jewish historian that condemned the widely-beloved Jonas Mekas, known as the 'Godfather of American avant-garde cinema', this essayistic, self-reflective, and analytic book flowers into an inquiry about memory and forgetting; the wild moral compass of the future that cannot find its bearing in the past; and the roles we all must play in writing the adequate history of events too traumatic for a just accounting"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Memories

Jonas Mekas

Michael Casper

Mekas Revisited

Charisma

Diary

Oral History

Magazine

The Forest of Astravas

Trauma

Character

Loyalty

Admiration

Settle the Scores

Literature

Internet Sources

Filmography

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781954600041

1954600046

OCLC:

1507699389