Film culture reader / edited and with an introduction by P. Adams Sitney.

Contributor(s):

Sitney, P. Adams, 1944- [editor]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Cooper Square Press, 2000.Edition: 1st Cooper Square Press edDescription: viii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:

0815411014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815411017 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.43/3

LOC classification:

PN 1995.9 F487 2000

Contents:

Introduction : A reader's guide to the American avant-garde film / P. Adams Sitney One: The formative years, 1955-58. The film as an original art form / Hans Richter ; The experimental film in America / Jonas Mekas ; Metaphysic of Ordet : a letter from Carl Th. Dreyer ; Citizen Kane : the American baroque / Andrew Sarris ; In memoriam of Dimitri Kirsanov, a neglected master / Walter S. Michel ; A preface to the problems of the experimental film / Parker Tyler ; The merry widow / introduced by Erich von Stroheim ; Portrait of an artist / Rudolf Arnheim ; A footnote to Foolish wives / Herman G. Weinberg ; Coffee, brandy, & cigars XXX / Herman G. Weinberg Two: The new American cinema. A call for a new generation of film-makers / Jonas Mekas ; For an uncontrolled cinema / Richard Leacock ; The first statement of the new American cinema group ; To Maya Deren / Rudolf Arnheim ; Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas ; For Shadows, against Pull my daisy / Parker Tyler Three: The commercial cinema and the Auteur theory. Notes on the Auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris ; The camera as a god / Charles Boultenhouse ; Dreyer / Ken Kelman ; Defense of Jayne Mansfield / Michael McClure Four: The American avant-garde. Poetry and the film : a symposium with Maya Deren, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Parker Tyler. Chairman, Willard Maas / organized by Amos Vogel ; Imagism in four avant-garde films / P. Adams Sitney ; Interview with Stan Brakhage / P. Adams Sitney ; The birth film / Jane Brakhage ; Respond dance / Stan Brakhage ; On The art of vision / Robert Kelly ; Harry Smith interview / P. Adams Sitney ; Kenneth's Anger's Scorpio rising / Carolee Schneemann ; Smith myth / Ken Kelman ; Interview with Peter Kubelka / Jonas Mekas ; Some notes on Sleep / Henry Geldzahler ; The cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson / Gene Youngblood ; Notes on some new movies and happiness / Jonas Mekas ; Structural film / P. Adams Sitney ; On "structural film" (by P. Adams Sitney) / George Maciunas

Summary: This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1995.9 F487 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000120669

Originally published: New York : Praeger Publishers, 1970, in series: Praeger film books ; Praeger paperbacks.

Includes index

Introduction : A reader's guide to the American avant-garde film / P. Adams Sitney
One: The formative years, 1955-58. The film as an original art form / Hans Richter ; The experimental film in America / Jonas Mekas ; Metaphysic of Ordet : a letter from Carl Th. Dreyer ; Citizen Kane : the American baroque / Andrew Sarris ; In memoriam of Dimitri Kirsanov, a neglected master / Walter S. Michel ; A preface to the problems of the experimental film / Parker Tyler ; The merry widow / introduced by Erich von Stroheim ; Portrait of an artist / Rudolf Arnheim ; A footnote to Foolish wives / Herman G. Weinberg ; Coffee, brandy, & cigars XXX / Herman G. Weinberg
Two: The new American cinema. A call for a new generation of film-makers / Jonas Mekas ; For an uncontrolled cinema / Richard Leacock ; The first statement of the new American cinema group ; To Maya Deren / Rudolf Arnheim ; Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas ; For Shadows, against Pull my daisy / Parker Tyler
Three: The commercial cinema and the Auteur theory. Notes on the Auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris ; The camera as a god / Charles Boultenhouse ; Dreyer / Ken Kelman ; Defense of Jayne Mansfield / Michael McClure
Four: The American avant-garde. Poetry and the film : a symposium with Maya Deren, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Parker Tyler. Chairman, Willard Maas / organized by Amos Vogel ; Imagism in four avant-garde films / P. Adams Sitney ; Interview with Stan Brakhage / P. Adams Sitney ; The birth film / Jane Brakhage ; Respond dance / Stan Brakhage ; On The art of vision / Robert Kelly ; Harry Smith interview / P. Adams Sitney ; Kenneth's Anger's Scorpio rising / Carolee Schneemann ; Smith myth / Ken Kelman ; Interview with Peter Kubelka / Jonas Mekas ; Some notes on Sleep / Henry Geldzahler ; The cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson / Gene Youngblood ; Notes on some new movies and happiness / Jonas Mekas ; Structural film / P. Adams Sitney ; On "structural film" (by P. Adams Sitney) / George Maciunas

This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.

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