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Call No: 462-054.72 NAF
Author: Naficy, Hamid
Source: US
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: v, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; EMIGRANT FILM WORKERS; EGOYAN, ATOM; KHLEIFI, MICHEL; NAIR, MIRA; SOLANAS, FERNANDO E.; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; NADERI, AMIR; MEKAS, JONAS; MARKER, CHRIS; GITAI, AMOS; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0691043914

Call No: 771.1(73) JAM
Author: James, David E., 1945
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: xiii, 388 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: UNDERGROUND FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS; BLACK POWER FILMS; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA. USA; VIETNAM WAR FILMS; BRAKHAGE, STAN; ANGER, KENNETH; WARHOL, ANDY; MEKAS, JONAS; FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO... (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1974); EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 362-377
ISBN: 0691047553 (alk. paper); 0691006040 (pbk.)
LON: 5820741
Contents: Stan Brakage, p29-57 -- Andy Warhol, p58-84 -- Jonas Mekas, p100-118 -- "Film that cannot be one: Kenneth Anger" p149-155 -- "Yvonne Rainer: Film about a woman who...", p326-334 -- "Allegories of production: Easy rider", p12-17 -- "Cinema and black liberation", p177-194 -- "Film and the war: representing Vietnam", p195-212 --

Call No: 771 ART
Author: Leighton, Tanya
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Tate Publishing in association with Afterall
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: 496 p. Ilustrations (some color) ; 25cm
Subject: ACCONCI, VITO; BARTHES, ROLAND; BELLOUR, RAYMOND; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BRAKHAGE, STAN; CONRAD, TONY; DANEY, SERGE; DEBORD, GUY; DELEUZE, GILLES; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; EXPANDED CINEMA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; EXPORT, VALIE; FAROCKI, HARUN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HUYGHE, PIERRE; KUBELKA, PETER; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; MEKAS, JONAS; ONO, YOKO; PAIK, NAM JUNE; RESNAIS, ALAIN; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE; SNOW, MICHAEL; STRUCTURAL FILMS; STRUCTURALISM; VIDEO ART; VIOLA, BILL; WARHOL, ANDY; WOLLEN, PETER
Summary: "The mutual fascination between art and cinema has had a great influence on contemporary culture. For the past fifty years, the love/hate affair between the two has triggered vital aesthetic, social and political responses that constantly renew the way we understand our age. This book traces the story from early spatial experiments with film and video technologies to the current widespread use of projected images in museums and galleries. Why has there been a turn to the cinematic in contemporary art? What happens to the moving image when it shifts from the black box to the white cube, when cinema is exhibited? How does this challenge the traditional mediums of film, painting and sculpture? 'Art and the Moving Image' gathers together key texts including new, translated and previously unavailable essays by eminent writers and theorists including Giorgio Agamben, Beatriz Colomina, Serge Daney, Rosalind Krauss, Maurizio Lazzaratto and Peter Wollen. It offers an essential introduction to the complex field of art and the projected image for both students and general readers." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781854376251
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Preface / Charles Esche -- Introduction / Tanya Leighton -- Colour plates -- Part I. Histories and revisions -- Fluxfilms in three false starts / Bruce Jenkins -- 'Culture: Intercom' and expanded cinema: a proposal and manifesto / Stan VanDerBeek -- Enclosed by images: the Eameses' multimedia architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- 'My mind split open': Andy Warhol's exploding plastic inevitable / Branden W. Joseph -- The Museum of attractions: marcel Broodthaers and the 'Section Cine´ma' / Eric de Bruyn -- Paul Sharits and the active spectator / Federico Windhausen -- Bare lives / Pamela M. Lee -- Leisure 73 / Sabeth Buchmann -- The two avant-gardes / Peter Wollen -- Modes of film practice in the avant-garde / Jonathan Walley -- Part II. The agonistic relationship between video and television -- Hardware: the videosphere / Gene Youngblood -- Video: the aesthetics of narcissism / Rosalind Krauss -- Tale of the tape: 'Radical Software' / David Joselit -- Dependent participation: Bruce Nauman's environments / Janet Kraynak -- After the cull / Elizabeth Bennett Hupp -- Live on tape: video, liveness and the immediate / William Kaizen -- The art of the possible: notes about some installations by Harun Farocki / Christa Blu¨mlinger -- Video, flows and real time / Maurizo Lazzarato -- Five years later / Bill Horrigan -- Part III. From cinema to post-cinema -- Deleuze's time, or how the cinematic changes our idea of art / John Rajchman -- Difference and repetition: on Guy Debord's films / Giorgio Agamben -- From movies to moving / Serge Daney -- The time of re-departure: after cinema, the cinema of the subject / Jean-Chrisotphe Royoux -- Dissolution of the frame: immersion and participation in video installations / Ursula Frohne -- Video projection: the space between screens / Liz Kotz -- Siting cinema / Andrew V. Uroskie -- Moving images moving images / John Kelsey -- Of an other cinema / Raymond Bellour -- The gap between film and installation art / Alexander Alberro -- White cube, black box and grey areas: venues and values / Gregor Stemmrich -- Art and cinema: some critical reflections / Mark Nash -- 'You Never Know the Whole Story': Ute Friederike Ju¨rss and the aesthetics of the heterochronic image / Thomas Y. Levin.

Call No: 451-03 SUA
Author: Sußrez, Juan Antonio
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xxviii, 353 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ANGER, KENNETH; SMITH, JACK; WARHOL, ANDY; UNDERGROUND FILMS. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS. USA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA; MEKAS, JONAS; SCORPIO RISING (US, Kenneth Anger, 1964); FLAMING CREATURES (US, Jack Smith, 1963)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-343) and index; Filmography: p. [317]-320; Bike boys, drag queens, and superstars
ISBN: 025332971X (cl : alk. paper); 025321033X (pa : alk. paper)
LON: 11661060

Call No: FESTIVAL CATALOGUE SHELVES; HELD 2004
Place: AG
PubDate: 2004
Subject: FESTIVALS. BUENOS AIRES INDEPENDENT CINEMA; ARGENTINA; DE ANTONIO, EMILE; BENNING, JAMES; EMIGHOLZ, HEINZ; FORD, JOHN; DE GREGORIO, EDUARDO; MEKAS, JONAS; ROCHA, GLAUBER; RUIZ, RAUL; SOKUROV, ALEKSANDR; INDEPENDENT FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Call No: 67-047.53 MEK
Author: Mekas, Jonas
Edition: 2018
Place: Leipzig
Publisher: Spector Books
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: 260 pages : illustrated ; 31 cm
Subject: HILL, JEROME; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY; KUCHAR, GEORGE; KUCHAR, MIKE; WARHOL, ANDY; PAPATAKIS, NICO; CHANT D`AMOUR, UN (FR, Jean Genet, 1950); VANDERBEEK, STAN; MEAD, TAYLOR; CLARKE, SHIRLEY; MAYSLES, DAVID; MAYSLES, ALBERT; CONRAD, TONY; MEKAS, JONAS; KUBELKA, PETER; JACOBS, KEN; WHITNEY, JAMES; DWOSKIN, STEPHEN; VARDA, AGNES; SONTAG, SUSAN; DE ANTONIO, EMILE; SMITH, HARRY; CASSAVETES, JOHN; MAKAVEJEV, DUSAN; SNOW, MICHAEL
Summary: Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania, came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded his daily observations. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, from 1958 until 1977, he published his “Movie Journal” column in the Village Voice, conducting numerous interviews with filmmakers from all over the world. Conversations is the first time that these interviews with his filmmaker friends and associates have been put together in a book. Mekas recorded the conversations with his camera. From the films he shot with his interlocutors, Mekas selected one photo or still to introduce each interview. The collection of texts is supplemented by letters and extracts from related scenarios /scriptsand rounded out with an index of the people involved. Jonas Mekas in conversation with Storm de Hirsch and Louis Brigante, Andy Warhol, Nico Papatakis, Albert and David Maysles, Peter Kubelka, Agnes Varda, Harry Smith, John Cassavetes, Stan Brakhage -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9783959050807

Call No: 802.25 MAC
Author: MacDonald, Scott, 1942
Place: Berkeley London
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: x, 462 p. : ill., ports ; 24cm
Subject: BREER, ROBERT; SNOW, MICHAEL; MEKAS, JONAS; BAILLIE, BRUCE; ONO, YOKO; BENNING, JAMES; BORDEN, LIZZIE; MCELWEE, ROSS; FRIEDRICH, SU; MULVEY, LAURA; RAINER, YVONNE; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; REGGIO, GODFREY; WATKINS, PETER; MCCALL, ANTHONY; NOREN, ANDREW; ROBERTSON, ANNE; SEVERSON, ANNE
Notes: Bibliography: p437-447. -List of films: p423-435. -Includes index
ISBN: 0520079175 (cased) : No price; 0520079183 (pbk) : No price; 0520058011 (pbk); 0520058003 (cased)
LON: 9965582

Call No: 70 JAC
Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp
Place: New York
Publisher: Hopkinson and Blake
PubDate: [c1969]
PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; COLORIZATION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GERMANY; ANIMATED FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; AUTEUR THEORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MUSIC IN FILMS; NEOREALISM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CLAIR, RENE; FORD, JOHN; PORTER, EDWIN S.; LESTER, RICHARD; DISNEY, WALT; BERGMAN, INGMAR; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; SARRIS, ANDREW; KAEL, PAULINE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RESNAIS, ALAIN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BASS, SAUL; MEKAS, JONAS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439
LON: 5011
ID2: 291

Call No: 771 ROS
Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Place: Denver, Colo.
Publisher: Arden
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; MEKAS, JONAS; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; B, BETH & SCOTT; BENNING, JAMES; GIDAL, PETER; JOST, JON; OTTINGER, ULRIKE; RAINER, YVONNE; RAPPAPORT, MARK; RIVETTE, JACQUES; SNOW, MICHAEL; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE; HUILLET, DANIELE; BREER, ROBERT; DE LANDA, MANUEL; DRIVER, SARA; HOCK, LOUIS; RAYNAL, JACKIE; THORNTON, LESLIE; GIDAL, PETER
Notes: Includes indexes
ISBN: 0912869038
LON: 3461214

Call No: 62 MAC
Author: MacCann, Richard Dyer
Edition: 1st ed
Place: N.Y.
Publisher: Dutton
PubDate: 1966
PhysDes: 384 p. : movie stills ; 18 cm
Subject: THEORY; AESTHETICS; DOCUMENTARIES; CINEMASCOPE; NEOREALISM; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; CLAIR, RENE; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; KNOX, ALEXANDER; NICHOLS, DUDLEY; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BALAZS, BELA; SENNETT, MACK; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO; RICHTER, HANS; Grierson, John; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; ROEMER, MICHAEL; BACHMANN, GIDEON; DREW, ROBERT; LEACOCK, RICHARD; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; DREYER, CARL TH.; VANDERBEEK, STAN; MEKAS, JONAS; KAEL, PAULINE; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; Fellini, Federico
ISBN: 0525471812
LON: 21441213

Call No: 62 FIL
Author: Hughes, Robert
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Grove Press
PubDate: 1959
PhysDes: v. : ill., ports ; 20 cm.
Series: Evergreen Books E140
Subject: PERIODICALS, FILM; ART AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; BARDEM, JUAN ANTONIO; BUNUEL, LUIS; CLEMENT, RENE; MEYERS, SIDNEY; DREYER, CARL TH.; HENNING-JENSEN, BJARNE; KAZAN, ELIA; Lean, David; SATYAJIT, RAY; RENOIR, JEAN; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; Fellini, Federico; AGEE, JAMES; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; MEKAS, JONAS; MAN OF ARAN (UK, Robert Flaherty, 1934); ALL OF MY BABIES : A MIDWIFE'S OWN STORY (US, George Stoney, 1952)
ISBN: 0195018346

Call No: F027(41) ARTIFICIAL "1976/7" ART
PubDate: 1977
Subject: ANGELOPOULOS, THEO; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; MEKAS, JONAS; Mizoguchi, Kenji; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE; DISTRIBUTORS
Notes: catalogue pamphlet

Call No: 738(71) MAC
Author: MacDonald, Scott
Place: Berkeley, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: xxvi, 461 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 24cm
Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS; NATURE IN FILMS; PLACE IN FILMS; PLACE IN FILMS. USA; CITIES IN FILMS; NEW YORK IN FILMS; GOTTHEIM, LARRY; COLE, THOMAS; MURPHY, J. J.; ANGER, KENNETH; MENKEN, MARIE; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE; BRAKHAGE, STAN; KELLER, MARJORIE; ROBERTSON, ANNE CHARLOTTE; LOWDER, ROSE; MANGOLTE, BABETTE; BENNING, JAMES; STONE, OLIVER; SPIRO, ELLEN; DEBONT, JAN; KUCHAR, GEORGE; BURCKHARDT, RUDY; WEEGEE; THOMPSON, FRANCIS; MENKEN, MARIE; HARRIS, HILARY; LEE, SPIKE; STAUFFACHER, FRANK; BAILLIE, BRUCE; RUDNICK, MICHAEL; GEHR, ERNIE; O'NEILL, PAT; MARTIN, EUGENE; MEKAS, JONAS; GREAVES, WILLIAM; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; HUOT, ROBERT; DORSKY, NATHANIEL; HUTTON, PETER; DASH, JULIE; FRANKLIN, CARL; CONNER, BRUCE; HERZOG, WERNER; LANZMANN, CLAUDE; STRAND, CHICK; NOREN, ANDREW; PIERCE, LEIGHTON; GATTEN, DAVID
Summary: "Explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualises his discussion with wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, painting and photography. Examining the representation of nature and landscape in particular, and location in general, MacDonald offers new readings of films under consideration as well as an expanded sense of modern film history."
Notes: Includes distribution sources for films and videos (in US), notes and index
ISBN: 0520227387

Call No: 771.3(73) REN
Author: Renan, Shelton
Edition: 1st ed.
Place: New York
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
PubDate: 1967
PhysDes: 318 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Subject: EXPANDED CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS. USA; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. USA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA; ANGER, KENNETH; BAILLIE, BRUCE; BELSON, JORDAN; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BRANAMAN, ROBERT; BREER, ROBERT; BURCKHARDT, RUDY; CONNER, BRUCE; CONRAD, TONY; D'AVINO, CARMEN; EMSHWILLER, ED; GOLDMAN, PETER EMANUEL; JACOBS, KEN; JORDAN, LARRY; KAYE, STANTON; KUCHAR, GEORGE; KUCHAR, MIKE; LANDOW, GEORGE; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY; MEKAS, JONAS; MENKEN, MARIE; NELSON, ROBERT; RICE, RON; SMITH, HARRY; SMITH, JACK; VAN DER BEEK, STAN; WARHOL, ANDY
Summary: A study of the American Underground Film, its subject matter and stylistic elements. Also a history of avant garde film in America with director and actor profiles.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 295-296 Includes index.
Contents: -- What is the underground film? -- A history of the avant-garde/experimental/underground film in America -- A gallery of film-makers -- Stars of the underground films -- The underground establishment -- Expanded Cinema

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MEKAS, JONAS

Call No: 771(73) MEK
Author: Mekas, Jonas, 1922
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan
PubDate: [1972]
PhysDes: xi, 434 p. 22 cm
Subject: MEKAS, JONAS; CRITICISM
Summary: Selections from the author's column Movie journal published in the Village voice
LON: 332630

Call No: 61:82 SAR
Author: Sargeant, Jack
Place: London
Publisher: Creation Books
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: 250 p. ; 24cm
Subject: LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CASSAVETES, JOHN; MEKAS, JONAS; VAN SANT, GUS; SMITH, JACK; SMITH, HARRY; FRANK, ROBERT; MEAD, TAYLOR; BALCH, ANTONY; MAECK, KLAUS; BUKOWSKI, CHARLES; BARFLY (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1987); CHAPPAQUA (US, Conrad Rooks, 1966); CUT UPS, THE (UK, Antony Balch, 1967); DECODER (GW, Muscha, 1984); DRUGSTORE COWBOY (US, Gus Van Sant, 1989); FLAMING CREATURES (US, Jack Smith, 1963); FLOWER THIEF, THE (US, Ron Rice, 1962); NAKED LUNCH (CN/UK, David Cronenberg, 1991); PULL MY DAISY (US, Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, 1959); SHADOWS (US, John Cassavetes, 1960); TOWERS OPEN FIRE (UK, Antony Balch, 1963); WHOLLY COMMUNION (UK, Peter Whitehead, 1965)
ISBN: 1871592674
LON: abn98046647; 13683320

Call No: 771 THO
Author: Thoms, Albie, 1941
Place: Glebe, N.S.W.
Publisher: Wild & Woolley
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 427p. ; 21cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; SURFING FILMS; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE; KUCHAR, MIKE; THOMS, ALBIE; MEKAS, JONAS; HALL, KEN G.; NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970); WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970); VIOLENCE IN THE CINEMA (AT, George Miller, 1972); ROLLING HOME (AT, David Lourie & Paul Witzig, 1975)
Notes: Index; Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0909331588 : $11.66 Aust; 0909331596 (Paperback) : $6.95 Aust
LON: 1473377

Call No: 771 THO
Author: Thoms, Albie
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Wild and Woolley
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 427 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; AUSTRALIA. 1970's; SURFING FILMS; SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE; CANTRILL, ARTHUR & CORINNE; KUCHAR, MIKE; THOMS, ALBIE; MEKAS, JONAS; HALL, KEN G.; NED KELLY (UK, Tony Richardson, 1970); WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970); VIOLENCE IN THE CINEMA (AT, George Miller, 1972); ROLLING HOME (AT, David Lourie & Paul Witzig, 1975)
Notes: Partial collection of previously published articles. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0909331596

Call No: 802 PRO v.11
Author: Lippy, Tod
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: 320p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: HOPE, TED; SCHAMUS, JAMES; MCDORMAND, FRANCES; BURWELL, CARTER; LEE, SPIKE; ROBBINS, TIM; COCHRAN, STACY; ANDERSON, WES; MEKAS, JONAS; VACHON, CHRISTINE; Pierson, John; LUMET, SIDNEY; EPHRON, NORA; JARMUSCH, JIM; KORINE, HARMONY; HENRY, BUCK; BERNSTEIN, WALTER; KUSAMA, KARYN; RUSSELL, DAVID O.; GROSBARD, ULU; DEPREZ, THERESE
ISBN: 0571205917(pbk.)
LON: 22055635

Call No: 224(73) MUR
Author: Murphy, Murphy
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2019
PhysDes: xi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject: SCRIPTS; SCRIPTWRITERS. USA; CASSAVETES, JOHN; LODEN, BARBARA; GREAVES, WILLIAM; VAN SANT, GUS; SWANBERG, JOE; MEKAS, JONAS; WARHOL, ANDY; CLARKE, SHIRLEY; MAILER, NORMAN; FERRARA, ABEL; KEITEL, HARVEY; VAN SANT, GUS; SWANBERG, JOE
Summary: "Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance.In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer’s own life experiences. Murphy begins in the 1950s and 1960s with John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, William Greaves, and other independent directors who sought to create a new type of narrative cinema. In the twenty-first century, filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant, the Safdie brothers, Joe Swanberg, and Sean Baker developed similar strategies, sometimes benefitting from the freedom of digital technology. In reading key films and analyzing their techniques, Rewriting Indie Cinema demonstrates how divergence from the script has blurred the divide between fiction and nonfiction. Showing the ways in which filmmakers have striven to capture the subtleties of everyday behavior, Murphy provides a new history of American indie filmmaking and how it challenges Hollywood industrial practice." -- Taken from Trove
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780231191975
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Introduction. Across the spectrum: from improvisation to psychodrama -- And I hate actors: the new American cinema -- Let's not phony it up anymore: the films of John Cassavetes -- Place-based realism: Mackenzie, Loden, and Burnett -- Experiments in psychodrama: Mekas, Warhol, Clarke, and Mailer -- Human life isn't necessarily well-written: the films of William Greaves: symbiopsychotaxiplasm: take one and take 2 1/ 2 -- Beyond the method: Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel -- Tied to a machine: the films of Gus Van Sant -- Like how you talk: the films of Joe Swanberg -- Improvisation and place: Putty Hill, Stand clear of the closing doors, and the films of Sean Baker -- Rediscovering psychodrama: Frownland, Heaven knows what, and Stinking heaven -- The line between reality and staging: Actor Martinez, Actress, and The witness -- Conclusion: blending fiction and documentary

Call No: 761 REN
Author: Renov, Michael
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series: Visible evididence: volume 16
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; CINEMA VERITE; BARTHES, ROLAND; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; DERRIDA, JACQUES; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FREUD, SIGMUND; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; IVENS, JORIS; LACAN, JACQUES; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; MEKAS, JONAS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WEXLER, HASKELL; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: "Michael Renov focuses on how documentary filmmaking has become an important means for both examining and constructing selfhood. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool to Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession, and the personal Web page." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780816634415
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Part 1: Social subjectivity -- 1: Early newsreel : the construction of a political imaginary for the new left -- 2. The "real" in fiction : Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation -- 3. Warring images : stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991 -- 4. Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist -- Part 2: The subject in theory -- 5. Charged vision : the place of desire in documentary film theory -- 6. The subject in history : the new autobiography in film and video -- 7. Filling up the hole in the real : death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video -- 8. Documentary disavowals and the digital -- 9. Technology and ethnographic dialogue -- 10. The address to the other : ethical discourse in Everything's for you -- Part three: modes of subjectivity -- 11. New subjectivities : documentary and self-representation in the post-verite age -- 12. The electronic essay -- 13. Video confessions -- 14. Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self. -- 15. The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything, you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet).

Call No: 81MEK TOF
Author: James, David E., 1945
Place: Princeton, N.J.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 333 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Subject: MEKAS, JONAS
Notes: Filmography: p. [321]-322; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0691078947 (alk. paper) : $49.50; 069102345X (pbk. : alk. paper) : $16.95
LON: 91031685; 8458275

Call No: 771.1(73) SIT
Author: Sitney, P. Adams
Edition: 2d ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: xiv, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; ANGER, KENNETH; BEAVERS, ROBERT; BELSON, JORDAN; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BREER, ROBERT; CROWLEY, ALEISTER; BRAKHAGE, JANE; BAILLIE, BRUCE; BROUGHTON, JAMES; CLARKE, SHIRLEY; CONNER, BRUCE; DEREN, MAYA; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; GEHR, ERNIE; JACOBS, KEN; JORDAN, LARRY; LANDOW, GEORGE; LYE, LEN; MACLAINE, CHRISTOPHER; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY; MEKAS, JONAS; NELSON, ROBERT; PETERSON, SIDNEY; RAINER, YVONNE; SHARITS, PAUL; SMITH, HARRY; SMITH, JACK; SNOW, MICHAEL; WARHOL, ANDY; WHITNEY, JAMES; RICE, RON; MAAS, WILLARD; KUBELKA, PETER; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; CORNELL, JOSEPH
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0195024850 : $15.95; 0195024869(pbk.)
LON: 1228317