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Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson

By P. Adams Sitney

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0195331141, 9780195331141, 019533115X, 9780195331158, 9780198044116
LCC
PN1995.9.E96 S49 2008
Open Library ID
OL10135254M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1323700 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
432\432
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, Su Friedrich, Ernie Gehr, and Abigail Child, Eyes Upside Down is the fruit of Sitney's lifelong study of visionary aspirations in the American avant-garde cinema.

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