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An accented cinema : exilic and diaspora filmmaking / Hamid Naficy Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Call No: 462-054.72 NAFAuthor: Naficy, Hamid Source: USPlace: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 2001PhysDes: v, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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
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Allegories of cinema : American film in the sixties / David E. James Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Call No: 771.1(73) JAMAuthor: James, David E., 1945 Place: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xiii, 388 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: 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. 362-377ISBN: 0691047553 (alk. paper); 0691006040 (pbk.)LON: 5820741Contents: 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 --
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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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Bike boys, drag queens & superstars : avant-garde, mass culture, and gay identities in the 1960s underground cinema / Juan A. Sußrez Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Call No: 451-03 SUAAuthor: Sußrez, Juan Antonio Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xxviii, 353 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: 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 superstarsISBN: 025332971X (cl : alk. paper); 025321033X (pa : alk. paper)LON: 11661060
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Buenos Aires Festival Internacionale de Cine Independiente AG: 2004.
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A critical cinema 2 : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley London: University of California Press, 1992.
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott, 1942 Place: Berkeley LondonPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: x, 462 p. : ill., ports ; 24cmSubject: 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 indexISBN: 0520079175 (cased) : No price; 0520079183 (pbk) : No price; 0520058011 (pbk); 0520058003 (cased)LON: 9965582
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The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969].
Call No: 70 JACAuthor: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New YorkPublisher: Hopkinson and BlakePubDate: [c1969]PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cmSubject: 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. 438-439LON: 5011ID2: 291
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Film : the front line, 1983 / by Jonathan Rosenbaum Denver, Colo.: Arden, 1983.
Call No: 771 ROSAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Place: Denver, Colo.Publisher: ArdenPubDate: 1983PhysDes: 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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 indexesISBN: 0912869038LON: 3461214
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Film : a montage of theories N.Y.: Dutton, 1966.
Call No: 62 MACAuthor: MacCann, Richard Dyer Edition: 1st edPlace: N.Y.Publisher: DuttonPubDate: 1966PhysDes: 384 p. : movie stills ; 18 cmSubject: 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: 0525471812LON: 21441213
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Film: Book 1 : the audience and the filmmaker / edited by Robert Hughes New York: Grove Press, 1959.
Call No: 62 FILAuthor: Hughes, Robert Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Grove PressPubDate: 1959PhysDes: v. : ill., ports ; 20 cm.Series: Evergreen Books E140Subject: 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
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Films in distribution winter '76-77 / Artificial Eye Film Company 1977.
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The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place / Scott MacDonald Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001.
Call No: 738(71) MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Place: Berkeley, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2001PhysDes: xxvi, 461 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 24cmSubject: 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 indexISBN: 0520227387
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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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MEKAS, JONAS
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: MEKAS, JONAS
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Movie journal : the rise of the new American cinema, 1959-1971 New York: Macmillan, [1972].
Call No: 771(73) MEKAuthor: Mekas, Jonas, 1922 Place: New YorkPublisher: MacmillanPubDate: [1972]PhysDes: xi, 434 p. 22 cmSubject: MEKAS, JONAS ; CRITICISM Summary: Selections from the author's column Movie journal published in the Village voiceLON: 332630
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The naked lens : an illustrated history of beat cinema / written,edited and compiled by Jack Sargeant London: Creation Books, 1997.
Call No: 61:82 SARAuthor: Sargeant, Jack Place: LondonPublisher: Creation BooksPubDate: 1997PhysDes: 250 p. ; 24cmSubject: 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: 1871592674LON: abn98046647; 13683320
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Polemics for a new cinema / [by] Albie Thoms Glebe, N.S.W.: Wild & Woolley, 1978.
Call No: 771 THOAuthor: Thoms, Albie, 1941 Place: Glebe, N.S.W.Publisher: Wild & WoolleyPubDate: 1978PhysDes: 427p. ; 21cmSubject: 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 referencesISBN: 0909331588 : $11.66 Aust; 0909331596 (Paperback) : $6.95 AustLON: 1473377
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Polemics for a new cinema : writings to stimulate new approaches to film / Thoms, Albie Sydney: Wild and Woolley, 1978.
Call No: 771 THOAuthor: Thoms, Albie Place: SydneyPublisher: Wild and WoolleyPubDate: 1978PhysDes: 427 p. ; 21 cmSubject: 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
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Projections 11 : New York film-makers on New York film-making / edited by Tod Lippy London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2001.
Call No: 802 PRO v.11Author: Lippy, Tod Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and Faber LimitedPubDate: 2001PhysDes: 320p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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
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Rewriting indie cinema : improvisation, psychodrama, and the screenplay / J.J Murphy New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Call No: 224(73) MURAuthor: Murphy, Murphy Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: 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 TroveNotes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9780231191975Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: 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
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The subject of documentary / Michael Renov Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Call No: 761 RENAuthor: Renov, Michael Place: Minneapolis, MNPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: xxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Series: Visible evididence: volume 16Subject: 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: 9780816634415Donation: Adrian MilesContents: 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).
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To free the cinema : Jonas Mekas & the New York underground / edited by David E. James Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Call No: 81MEK TOFAuthor: James, David E., 1945 Place: Princeton, N.J.Publisher: Princeton University PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: 333 p. : ill ; 24 cmSubject: MEKAS, JONAS Notes: Filmography: p. [321]-322; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0691078947 (alk. paper) : $49.50; 069102345X (pbk. : alk. paper) : $16.95LON: 91031685; 8458275
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Visionary film : the American avant-garde / P. Adams Sitney New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Call No: 771.1(73) SITAuthor: Sitney, P. Adams Edition: 2d edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: xiv, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: 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 indexISBN: 0195024850 : $15.95; 0195024869(pbk.)LON: 1228317
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