Stan Brakhage: FilmmakerTemple University Press, 2011 M01 19 - 248 pages Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements, and reminiscences about the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of nearly four hundred short films, including Dog Star Man, Parts I-IV, and the Roman Numeral Series, Brakhage is widely recognized as one of the great artists of the medium. His shorts eschewed traditional narrative structure, and his innovations in fast cutting, hand-held camerawork, and multiple superimpositions created an unprecedentedly rich texture of images that provided the vocabulary for the explosion of independent filmmaking in the 1960s. Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker chronicles both the director's personal and formal development. The essays in this book—by historians, filmmakers, and other artists—assess Brakhage's contributions to the aesthetic and political history of filmmaking, from his emergence on the film scene and the establishment of his reputation, to the early-1980s. The result is a remarkable tribute to this lyrical, visionary artist. |
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Brakhage Breer Menken The Pure Poets of Cinema Jonas Mekas | 27 |
Brakhage and Rilke Jerome Hill | 29 |
On The Art of Vision Robert Kelly | 32 |
The First Time I Heard the Word Brakhage Edward Dorn | 34 |
Camera LucidaCamera Obscura Annette Michelson | 36 |
Brakhage Memoir James Tenney | 57 |
Stan Bruce Baillie | 129 |
Stan Brakhage Agrimoniac Craig Dworkin | 132 |
Brakhage Package Chick Strand | 150 |
Brakhages Faustian Psychodrama P Adams Sitney | 153 |
American Visionary Willie Varela | 169 |
Figure Subjectivity and AvantGarde Politics Tyrus Miller | 174 |
Notes on Sincerity and Irony Abigail Child | 196 |
The Vancouver Island Films Paul Arthur | 207 |
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