TY - BOOK AU - Graf,Alexander AU - Scheunemann,Dietrich TI - Avant-garde film T2 - Avant garde critical studies SN - 9789401200035 AV - PN1995.9.E96 A93 2007eb U1 - 791.43/61 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi KW - Experimental films KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary material; Editors Avant-Garde Film --; Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling: The Dream of Universal Language and the Birth of The Absolute Film; R. Bruce Elder --; Frames and Windows: Visual Space in Abstract Cinema; A.L. Rees --; Paris – Berlin – Moscow: On the Montage Aesthetic in the City Symphony Films of the 1920s; Alexander Graf --; Man Ray’s Films: From Dada to Surrealism; Rudolf E. Kuenzli --; On Mário Peixoto’s Limite; Michael Korfmann --; Dancing with Light: Choreographies of Gender in the Cinema of Germaine Dulac; Tami M. Williams --; Mayakovsky: Film: Futurism; Marina Burke --; The Interiority of Space: Desire and Maya Deren; Maureen Turim --; Stan Brakhage’s Film Testament: The Four Faust Films; Inez Hedges --; Light-Play and the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film; William C. Wees --; Paul Sharits: from Cinematic Movement to Nondirectional Motion; Yvonne Spielmann --; Changes in experimental filmmaking between the 1920s and the 1960s: On Luis Buñuel; Pierre Sorlin --; It’s a Kind of Magic: World Construction in French Surrealist and Belgian Magical Realist Fiction and Cinema; Bart Keunen and Sascha Bru --; Peter Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; Nicky Hamlyn --; Danish Avant-Garde Filmmakers of the 1960s: Technology, Cross-aesthetics and Politics; Tania Ørum --; French Experimental Cinema: the Figural and the Formless – Nicolas Rey’s Terminus for you (1996) and Pip Chodorov’s Charlemagne 2: Piltzer (2002); Martine Beugnet --; The Stammering Frame: on recent French and Austrian Film Experiments; Frédérique Devaux --; Inscriptions of Light and The ‘Calligraphy of Decay’: Volatile Representation in Bill Morrison’s Decasia; Ursula Böser --; From Video Art to Video Performance: The Work of Ulrike Rosenbach; Günter Berghaus --; New Media and Feminist Interventions: Valie Export’s Medial Anagrams; Margit Grieb --; The Paracinema of Anthony McCall and Tony Conrad; Jonathan Walley --; List of Illustrations; Editors Avant-Garde Film --; Contributors to this volume; Editors Avant-Garde Film --; Index; Editors Avant-Garde Film; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - This volume on avant-garde film has emerged as part of a wider reassessment of 20th century avant-garde art, literature and film carried out in the framework of a research project at the University of Edinburgh. It paves the way for a fresh assessment of avant-garde film and develops its theory as an integral part of a newly defined conception of the avant-garde as a whole, by closing the gap between theoretical approaches towards the avant-garde as defined on the basis of art and literature on the one hand and avant-garde cinema on the other. It gathers contributions by the most esteemed scholars in the field of avant-garde studies relating to the “classical” avant-garde cinema of the 1920s, to new trends emerging in the 1950s and 1960s and to the impact that innovative technologies have recently had on the further development of avant-garde and experimental film. The contributions reflect the broad range of different moving-image media that make up what we refer to today simply as “film”, at the same time as reconsidering the applicability of the label “avant-garde”, to offer a comprehensive and updated framework that will prove invaluable to scholars of both Moving Image Studies and Art History disciplines UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401200035 ER -