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Art and the moving image : A critical reader / Tanya Leighton London: Tate Publishing in association with Afterall, 2008.
Call No: 771 ARTAuthor: Leighton, Tanya Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Tate Publishing in association with AfterallPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 496 p. Ilustrations (some color) ; 25cmSubject: 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: 9781854376251Donation: Adrian MilesContents: 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.
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Conversations with film-makers : movie journal columns 1961-1975 / Jonas Mekas Leipzig: Spector Books, 2018.
Call No: 67-047.53 MEKAuthor: Mekas, Jonas Edition: 2018Place: LeipzigPublisher: Spector BooksPubDate: 2018PhysDes: 260 pages : illustrated ; 31 cmSubject: 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 siteISBN: 9783959050807
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A critical cinema 5 : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2006.
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Source: USPlace: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS ; INDEPENDENT FILMS ; ANGER, KENNETH ; CONRAD, TONY ; DORSKY, NATHANIEL ; HILER, JEROME ; AHWESH, PEGGY ; BERLINER, ALAN ; MOSS, ROBB ; SOLOMAN, PHIL ; BENNING, JAMES ; LEIGHTON PIERCE ; MULLER, MATTHIAS ; LOCKHART, SHARON ; REEVES, JENNIFER TODD ; KANO, SHIHO ; GEHR, ERNIE Summary: "MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media. "ISBN: 0520245954Contents: Kenneth Anger -- Tony Conrad -- Nathaniel Dorsky (and Jerome Hiler) -- Peggy Ahwesh -- Alan Berliner -- Robb Moss -- Phil Solomon -- James Benning -- J. Leighton Pierce -- Matthias Mu¨ller -- Sharon Lockhart -- Jennifer Todd Reeves -- Shiho Kano -- Ernie Gehr
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An introduction to the American underground film / by Shelton Renan New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967.
Call No: 771.3(73) RENAuthor: Renan, Shelton Edition: 1st ed.Place: New YorkPublisher: E.P. DuttonPubDate: 1967PhysDes: 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
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Slow cinema / edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Call No: 631.11 SLOAuthor: de Luca, Tiago ; Jorge, Nuno Barradas Edition: 2016Place: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: xx, 332 pages ; illustrated : 24 cmSubject: TIME IN FILMS ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE ; HUILLET, DANIELE ; MING-LIANG, TSAI ; WEERASETHAKUL, APICHATPONG ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; TARR, BELA ; BENNING, JAMES ; WARHOL, ANDY ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; CONRAD, TONY ; INNOCENCE (FR, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004) ; MEEK'S CUTOFF (US, Kelly Reichardt, 2011) ; JAPON (MX/GG/NE/SP, Carlos Reygadas, 2002) Summary: In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal structures from the accelerated tempo of late-capitalism. Although not part of a structured film movement, directors such as Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa and Kelly Reichardt have been largely subsumed under the term ‘slow cinema’. But what exactly is slow cinema? Is it a strictly recent phenomenon or an overarching cinematic tradition? And how exactly do slow cinemas interrelate on an aesthetic, technical and political level?
Deploying the concept of slowness as an umbrella category under which filmmakers and traditions from different historical and geographical backgrounds can fruitfully converge, this innovative collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have generally informed slow cinema debates. Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-grained studies that will provide valuable insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780748696048Contents: Table Of Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword / Julian Stringer -- Introduction: From Slow Cinema to Slow Cinemas / Tiago De Luca & Nuno Barradas Jorge -- Part I: Historicising Slow Cinema -- 1: The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity / Lúcia Nagib -- 2: The Slow Pulse of the Era: Carl Th. Dreyer’s Film Style / C. Claire Thomson -- 3: The First Durational Cinema and the Real of Time / Michael Walsh -- 4: ‘The Attitude of Smoking and Observing’: Slow Film and Politics in the Cinema Of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet / Martin Brady -- Part II: Contextualising Slow Cinema -- 5: Temporal Aesthetics of Drifting: Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness / Song Hwee Lim -- 6: Stills and Stillness in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema / Glyn Davis -- 7: Melancholia: The Long, Slow Cinema of Lav Diaz / William Brown -- 8: Exhausted Drift: Austerity, Dispossession and the Politics of Slow in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff / Elena Gorfinkel -- 9: If These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke / Cecília Mello -- Part III: Slow Cinema And Labour -- 10: Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema’s Labouring Body, The Political Spectator, and the Queer / Karl Schoonover -- 11: Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa’s in Vanda’s Room / Nuno Barradas Jorge -- 12: Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing’s Tie Xi Qu: West Of The Tracks / Patrick Brian Smith -- 13: ‘Slow Sounds’: Duration, Audition and Labour in Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide and Oxhide II / Philippa Lovatt -- Part IV: Slow Cinema and the Nonhuman -- 14: It’s About Time: Slow Aesthetics in Experimental Ecocinema and Nature Cam Videos / Stephanie Lam -- 15: Natural Views: Animals, Contingency and Death in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón and Lisandro Alonso’s Los Muertos / Tiago de Luca -- 16: The Sleeping Spectator: Nonhuman Aesthetics in Abbas Kiarostami’s Five: Dedicated to Ozu / Justin Remes -- Part V: The Ethics and Politics of Slowness -- 17: Béla Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction / Jacques Rancière -- 18: Ethics of the Landscape Shot: A.K.A Serial Killer and James Benning's Portraits of Criminals / Julian Ross -- 19: Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration / Asbjørn Grønstad -- Part VI: Beyond ‘Slow Cinema’ -- 20: Performing Evolution: Immersion / Unfolding and Lucile Hadžihalilovic’s Innocence / Matilda Mroz -- 21: The Slow Road to Europe: The Politics and Aesthetics of Stalled Mobility in Hermakono and Morgen / Michael Gott -- 22: Crystallising the Past: Slow Heritage Cinema / Rob Stone and Paul Cooke
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