An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film
Author | : Maya Deren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maya Deren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bill Nichols |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780520227323 |
Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer and filmaker. These essays examine Deren's writings, films, and legacy from a variety of perspectives.
Author | : Pascalle Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Artists' books |
ISBN | : |
"A gram of ideas on art, form and film consists of found poetry extracted from May Deren's essay "An anagram of ideas on art, form and film" (1946) ... Colophon.
Author | : Bill Nichols |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780520353312 |
Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an independent cinema have inspired filmmakers for over fifty years. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) ranks among the most widely viewed of all avant-garde films. The eleven essays gathered here examine Maya Deren's writings, films, and legacy from a variety of intriguing perspectives. Some address her relative neglect during the rise of feminist film theory; all argue for her enduring significance. The essays cast light on her aesthetics and ethics, her exploration of film form and of other cultures, her role as (woman) artist and as film theorist. Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde also includes one of the most significant reflections on the nature of art and the responsibilities of the filmmaker ever written--Deren's influential but long out-of-print book, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, in its entirety. Among the topics covered in this volume are Deren's ties with the avant-garde of her day and its predecessors; her perspective on vodoun ritual, possession ceremonies, and social harmony; her work in relation to the modern dance tradition and its racial inflections; her thoughts, written in the shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about science, including how form can embody moral principles; the complex issue of the "woman artist" in an avant-garde dominated by men; her famous dispute with Anaïs Nin; and an exploration of issues of identification and desire in her major films. As the first critical evaluation of the enduring significance of Maya Deren, this book clarifies the filmmaker's theoretical and cinematic achievements and conveys the passionate sense of moral purpose she felt about her art. It is a long-overdue tribute to one of the most important and least written about filmmakers in American cinema, an artist who formulated the terms and conditions of independent cinema that remain with us today.
Author | : Maya Deren |
Publisher | : McPherson & Company |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2005-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780929701653 |
Author | : Moira Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789171535825 |
Author | : Douglas Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0199772622 |
The practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. This book weaves together theory from art and dance as well as appropriate historical reference material to propose a new theory of screendance, one that frames it within the discourse of post-modern art practice.
Author | : James Donald |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2008-04-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1446206823 |
Written by a team of veteran scholars and exciting emerging talents, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies maps the field internationally, drawing out regional differences in the way that systematic intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been translated into an academic discipline. It examines the conversations between Film Studies and its contributory disciplines that not only defined a new field of discourse but also modified existing scholarly traditions. It reflects on the field′s dominant paradigms and debates and evaluates their continuing salience. Finally, it looks forward optimistically to the future of the medium of film, the institution of cinema and the discipline of Film Studies at a time when the very existence of film and cinema are being called into question by new technological, industrial and aesthetic developments.
Author | : Sarah Keller |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-12-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231538472 |
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 1940s and 1950s. 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.
Author | : Lauren Rabinovitz |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Experimental films |
ISBN | : 9780252071249 |
In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each provided entrée to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. With a new preface and an updated bibliography, Points of Resistance simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network.