Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers - Couverture rigide

9780520080249: Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520080246 ISBN 13 : 9780520080249

Editeur : University of California Press, 1995

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'Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors' - Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964. A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental 'language art'. It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script is introduced and contextualized by MacDonald; a filmography and a bibliography round out the volume. This is a readable - often quite funny - literature that investigates differences between seeing and reading. Represented are avant-garde classics such as Hollis Frampton's "Poetic Justice" and "Zorns Lemma" and Morgan Fisher's "Standard Gauge", and William Greaves' recently rediscovered "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One". Michael Snow turns film loose on language in "So Is This"; Peter Rose turns language loose on theory in "Pressures of the Text". Some of the most influential feminist filmscripts of recent decades - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's "Riddles of the Sphinx", Su Friedrich's "Gently Down the Stream", Trinh T. Minh-ha's "Reassemblage", Yvonne Rainer's "Privilege" - confirm this book's importance for readers in gender and cultural studies as well as for filmmakers and admirers of experimental writing, independent cinema, and the visual arts in general.

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� propos de l?auteur

Scott MacDonald is Professor of Film Studies and American Literature at Utica College. He is editor of A Critical Cinema and A Critical Cinema 2 (California, 1988, 1992).

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