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European Underground in Lumiere (November-December 1971) iss.12 p.36-38
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Experimental cinema : the film reader / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster London: Routledge, 2002.
Call No: 385.83 DIXAuthor: Dixon, Wheeler Winston, and Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 2002PhysDes: 356 p. : ill.; 23 cmSubject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; STRUCTURALISM ; DEREN, MAYA ; ANGER, KENNETH ; SMITH, JACK ; WARHOL, ANDY ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; CONNER, BRUCE ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; JULIEN, ISAAC ; DASH, JULIE ; HAMMER, BARBARA Summary: Brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920’s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. Each section features an editor’s introduction setting debates in their context. Sections include: Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, The 1960’s experimental cinema explosion, Structuralism in the 1970’s and Alternative cinemas.ISBN: 0415277876
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The filming of modern life : European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s / by Malcom Turvey Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, c2011.
Call No: 771(4) TURAuthor: Turvey, Malcolm Source: USPlace: Cambridge, MassachusettsPublisher: MIT PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: xii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; EUROPEAN CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's ; BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924) ; MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; PARIS QUI DORT (FR, Rene Clair, 1923) ; CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928) Summary: "In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), Ballet mecanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Leger, 1924), Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and Rene Clair, 1924), Un chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time, from abstract animation to "cinema pur." Turvey argues that these films share a concern with modernization and the rapid, dislocating changes it was bringing about. He critically addresses major theories of the avant-garde and its relation to modern life, including the claim that film is "distracting" in the same way as a modern environment, and he challenges the standard view of the avant-garde as implacably opposed to bourgeois modernity. In fact, he writes, not only was there considerable disagreement among avant-garde movements about what aspects of modern life needed transformation, but the positions of individual avant-garde artists toward modernization were complex, even contradictory. All five films that Turvey analyzes embrace and resist, in their own ways, different aspects of modernity. Although much has been written about each of these films, The Filming of Modern Life is the first book to examine them together, illuminating their shared concern with modernization and its consequences." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: "An October book"; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780262015189Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Abstraction and rhythm 21 -- "Cinema pur" and Ballet me´chanique -- Dada, Entr'acte and Paris qui dort -- Surrealism and Un chien andalou -- City symphony and Man with a movie camera -- Film, distraction, and modernity -- notes -- index --
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The German avante-garde film of the 1920's : Der Deutsche avant-garde film der 20er jahre / by Walter Schobert Munich, Germany: Goethe-Institut, 1989.
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The other side : European avant-garde cinema, 1960-1980 : a film exhibition / organized by the American Federation of Arts New York, N.Y.: The Federation, c1983.
Call No: 771.1 OTHAuthor: Cornwell, Regina, 1941 CorpAuthor: American Federation of ArtsPlace: New York, N.Y.Publisher: The FederationPubDate: c1983PhysDes: 91 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; HEIN, BIRGIT & WILHEIM ; KREN, KURT ; NEKES, WERNER ; POTTER, SALLY ; SCHROETER, WERNER ; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE ; HUILLET, DANIELE ; TAIT, MARGARET ; Wenders, Wim ; ZWARTJES, FRANS ; WELSBY, CHRIS ; WYBORNY, KLAUS ; SMITH, JOHN ; LEGGETT, MIKE ; LE GRICE, MALCOM ; MOMMARTZ, LUTZ ; O., DORE ; GOTOVAC, TOMISLAV ; KRISTL, VLADO ; NOOIJER, PAUL DE ; BODY, GABOR ; BOLTANSKI, CHRISTIAN ; BARUCHELLO, GIANFRANCO Notes: Bibliography: p. 88-89; Includes filmographiesISBN: 0917418743 (pbk.)LON: 3032991
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