Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work some seventy hours is one of the largest of any filmmaker in the history of cinema, and one of the most diverse. Probably the most widely quoted experimental filmmaker in history, his films typify the independent cinema.
Until now, despite well-deserved acclaim, there has been no comprehensive study of Brakhage s oeuvre. "The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition" fills this void. R. Bruce Elder delineates the aesthetic parallels between Brakhage s films and a broad...
Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work some seventy hours is one of the largest ...
This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema's lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film's provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it...
This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and e...
What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?
In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context.
Elder examines how recent artists have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He proposes the daring thesis that in their efforts to do so, artists have resorted to gnostic models of consciousness. He argues that the attempt to convey these...
What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the cult...
This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema's lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film's provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it...
This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and e...
