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Stan Brakhage Filmmaker

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 ..
eBook, English, 2011
Temple University Press, Philadelphia PA, 2011
Aufsatzsammlung
1 online resource (250 Seiten)
9781592132720, 9781439905296, 1592132723, 1439905290
1020173091
Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Stan Brakhage: The Activity of His Nature - David E. James2. Stan Brakhage - Parker Tyler3. Brakhage. Breer. Menken. The Pure Poets of Cinema - Jonas Mekas4. Brakhage and Rilke - Jerome Hill5. On The Art of Vision - Robert Kelly6. The First Time I Heard the Word "Brakhage" - Edward Dorn7. Camera Lucida/Camera Obscura - Annette Michelson8. Brakhage Memoir - James Tenney9. Amateurs in the Industry Town: Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol in Los Angeles - David E. James10. It Is Painting - Carolee Schneemann11. Brakhage: Poesis - R. Bruce Elder12. Recollections of Stan Brakhage - Jonas Mekas13. The Roman Numeral Series - Nicky Hamlyn14. Letter re: Stan - Bruce Baillie15. Stan Brakhage, Agrimoniac - Craig Dworkin16. Brakhage Package - Chick Strand17. Brakhage's Faustian Psychodrama - P. Adams Sitney18. Stan Brakhage: American Visionary - Willie Varela19. Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics - Tyrus Miller20. Notes on Sincerity and Irony - Abigail Child21. Becoming Dark With Excess of Light: The Vancouver Island Films - Paul Arthur22. As I Am Writing This Today - Phil SolomonContributorsIndex