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基本説明
P. Adams Sitney, the leading critic of personal and experimental cinema in America, picks up where he left off in his landmark book, Visionary Film. This all new work offers in-depth analysi of eleven central filmmakers of the American avand-garde cinema, drawing on the aesthetic articulated by Emerson and theorized by John Cage, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein.
Full Description
Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, Su Friedrich, Ernie Gehr, and Abigail Child, Eyes Upside Down is the fruit of Sitney's lifelong study of visionary aspirations of the American avant-garde cinema. Sitney's earlier book and critical essays defined the field of serious criticism of the American film avant-garde. He supplies a unique approach, critical, formal and intellectual, rather than sociological, ideological or institutional. Like his earlier book, Eyes Upside Down is a dense, sustained blast of convincing criticism which unfolds through a compelling personal vision. It makes a serious contribution to cinema studies and it is sure to remain in circulation for many years to come.
Contents
Introduction: Emersonian Poetics ; 1. Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera ; 2. Ian Hugo and Superimposition ; 3. Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence ; 4. Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film ; 5. Hollis Frampton and the Spectre of Narrative ; 6. Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe ; 7. Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present - The Present in the Past ; 8. Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence ; 9. Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought ; 10. Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto ; 11. Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes ; 12. Frampton's Magellan ; 13. Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance ; 14. Su Friedrich: "Giving Birth to Myself" ; 15. Brakhage: Meditative Cinema ; 16. Beavers's Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture ; 17. Mekas's Retrospection ; Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration ; Appendix: Chronology of Films