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Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History In Avant-Garde Film - Couverture souple

Skoller, Jeffrey

 
9780816642328: Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History In Avant-Garde Film
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 081664232X ISBN 13 : 9780816642328
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2005

Synopsis

Avant-garde films are often dismissed as obscure or disconnected from the realities of social and political history. Jeffrey Skoller challenges this myth, arguing that avant-garde films more accurately display the complex interplay between past events and our experience of the present than conventional documentaries and historical films. Shadows, Specters, Shards examines a group of experimental films, including work by Eleanor Antin, Ernie Gehr, and Jean-Luc Godard, that take up historical events such as the Holocaust, Latin American independence struggles, and urban politics. Identifying a cinema of evocation rather than representation, these films call attention to the unrepresentable aspects of history that profoundly impact the experience of everyday life. Making use of the critical theories of Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, among others, Skoller analyzes various narrative strategies - allegory, sideshadowing, testimony, and multiple temporalities - that uncover competing perspectives and gaps in historical knowledge often ignored in conventional film. In his discussion of avant-garde film of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Skoller reveals how a nuanced understanding of the past is inextricably linked to the artistry of image making and storytelling.

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À propos de l'auteur

Filmmaker Jeffrey Skoller is associate professor of film, video, and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His visual works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Arsenal Kino (Berlin), Latin American Film Festival (Havana), and National Film Theatre (London), among others, and his essays have appeared in DISCOURSE, New Art Examiner, Afterimage, and Film Quarterly.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081664232X
ISBN 13 
9780816642328
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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