Marc Karlin: Look Again - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1781381658 ISBN 13 : 9781781381656

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book provides almost the only published material on the work of Marc Karlin. On his death in 1999, Karlin was commemorated as one of the visionaries of independent British film culture, with its roots in the seventies and its expansion in the first decades of Channel 4 television. This edited collection will profile his films and ideas, drawing exclusively on documents and correspondence from his recently recovered archive. It includes appraisals both from his collaborators and eminent film theorists, and is an illuminating addition to the sparse but rapidly expanding field of independent cinema studies. Marc Karlin was an incisive, witty man and a passionate advocate for an inclusive cultural space. He filmed his way through three decades of huge change, wrestling with the challenges of Thatcher’s free market economics; the demise of manufacturing; the imagining of socialist ways forward after the fall of the Berlin Wall; the role of art in society and the shape-shifting impact of digital technologies: all key concerns relevant to our world today. The book is structured through four contextualizing essays followed by twelve chapters expressing the focus and aesthetic of his documentaries and cultural politics. It combines academic analysis with memoir, and includes a recorded discussion on Karlin’s creative practice, his unpublished writings on cinema and over 150 images from his films. With a foreword by UK’s celebrated film director, Sally Potter MBE, this book presents the reader with an illustrated mosaic of encounters engaging with the spirit of this remarkable man, and will ensure that his work is restored to the canon of British cinema.

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Contributor Biographies John Akomfrah, OBE, is a director, writer and theorist who creates documentaries, feature films and exhibitions to international critical acclaim. Born in Ghana, he was a founding figure in the influential cine-cultural group Black Audio Film Collective. In 1999 he set up Smoking Dogs Films with his long-term producing partners, David Lawson and Lina Gopaul. His body of work is considered one of the most distinctive and innovative in contemporary Britain Holly Aylett is a film-maker, writer and Senior Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University's Global Policy Institute, specialising in audio-visual and cultural policy. In the 1980s she co-founded Broadside, the women's collective which produced Channel 4's first current affairs strand. With Marc Karlin and others she set up Vertigo magazine, being Managing Editor 2001-10. She founded the Independent Film Parliament, 2003-07, and currently directs the UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity (UKCCD). Jonathan Bloom is a director of photography. He photographed every film directed by Marc Karlin and also worked with many independents of the time including Black Audio Film Collective and Ceddo. With a wide range of work in documentary, commercials and features, his credits include The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Singh is King (2008). Hugh Brody is an anthropologist, author and film-maker. Educated at Oxford, and an Honorary Associate of the Scott Polar Institute at the University of Cambridge, he now holds a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the University College of the Fraser Valley. His books include Inishkillane, Maps and Dreams, Means of Escape and The Other Side of Eden. His films include Nineteen Nineteen, The Meaning of Life and Tracks across Sand. Carlos Fernando Chamorro is a Nicaraguan journalist and was editor of the Sandinista daily Barricada between 1979 and 1994. Since 1996, he has been director of the independent media Esta Semana (TV), and Confidencial (www.confidencial.com.ni) a weekly publication combining investigative journalism and analyses of current affairs. Chamorro also has a radio show called Onda Local (Local Wave) and is president of the Centro de Investigaciones de la Comunicacion (CINCO, the Center of Investigations of Communication), a nonprofit research and polling firm in Nicaragua. Michael Chanan is a documentarist, writer and Professor of Film & Video at the University of Roehampton, London. His books include studies of early cinema, Cuban cinema, the social history of music, the history of recording and The Politics of Documentary (2007). He made his first films for BBC2, and several documentaries on Latin America in the 1980s, mostly for Channel 4. More recently, with academic funding, he produced Secret City (2012) and Interrupted Memory (2013). Michael Eaton studied Social Anthropology at King's College, Cambridge before becoming a dramatist working in film, television, radio and theatre. His film Fellow Traveller, about an exiled, blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter writing a children's version of Robin Hood, won Best Screenplay at the British Film Awards in 1989. His most recent play Charlie Peace - His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend, about the notorious nineteenth-century thief and murderer, premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in 2013. Gareth Evans is a writer, curator, presenter and producer. He was lead editor of Vertigo (2002-09). He programmes PLACE at Aldeburgh Music and has curated numerous film and event seasons across the UK. With Di Robson he produced the essay film Patience (After Sebald) by Grant Gee as part of his nationwide arts project The Re-Enchantment (2008-11). He is Film Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Alan Fountain has been involved in a variety of roles in independent film and television since the mid-1970s and was one of the founding commissioning editors

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781381658
• ISBN 13: 9781781381656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Aylett Holly
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible