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ON THE EVE OF THE FUTURE
SELECTED WRITINGS ON FILM |
| By: |
Annette Michelson |
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Hardback |
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£36.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262035502 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262035507 |
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| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
10 February, 2017 |
| Series: |
October Books |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Synopsis: |
The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years' worth of those essays, focusing on her most relevant engagements with avant-garde production in experimental cinema, particularly with the movement known as American Independent Cinema.This volume includes the first critical essay on Marcel Duchamp's film Anemic Cinema, the first investigation into Joseph Cornell's filmic practices, and the first major explorations of Michael Snow. It offers an important essay on Maya Deren, whose work was central to that era of renewal and reinvention, seminal critiques of Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, and Harry Smith, and overviews of Independent Cinema. Gathered here for the first time, these texts demonstrate Michelson's pervasive influence as a writer and thinker and her role in the establishment of cinema studies as an academic field. The postwar generation of Independents worked to develop radically new terms, techniques, and strategies of production and distribution. Michelson shows that the fresh new forms they created from the legacy of Modernism became the basis of new forms of spectatorship and cinematic pleasure. |
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24 color photos, 54 b&w photos |
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US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
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