Experimental Film and Anthropology' urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the…
"Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasur…
Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure…
"The clamor over new digital technologies has obscured the fact that filmmakers have experimented with computers for several decades. One of the most notable of these is Malcolm Le Grice, a pioneer of "structural film" in the 1970s whose first video and computer works were exhib…
This is a study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on a handful of filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience. It reconsiders the question of dissent in the cultural landscape of Japan in the post-war period.
This is a study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on a handful of filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience. It reconsiders the question of dissent in the cultural landscape of Japan in the post-war period.
Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects' presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from fes…
Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects' presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from fes…
"New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is…
This is the first book length study to explore an area of film that has gathered increased attention in Documentary Studies. Dara Waldron explores 'near documentary' as a mode of film which involves the creative intervention in real-life settings, offering extensive case study a…
And Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. Thi…
