Meshes of the Afternoon - Couverture souple

Rhodes, John David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1838719725 ISBN 13 : 9781838719722

Editeur : British Film Institute, 2020

Synopsis

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), filmed by Maya Deren and her then husband Alexader Hammid in their bungalow above Sunset Boulevard for a mere $274.90, is the most important film in the history of American avant-garde cinema. The artistic collaboration between Deren and Hammid finds its distorted reflection in the vision of the film's tormented female protagonist. Its focus - through a series of intricate and interlocking dream sequences - on female experience and the domestic sphere links Meshes to the Hollywood melodramas of the period, while its unsettling atmosphere of dread, death and doubles makes it a counter-cinematic cousin to film noir. The film has influenced not only the subsequent history of experimental film, but also on the work of Hollywood auteurs. It is a touchstone of women's film-making, of modern cinema and of modern art.

John David Rhodes traces the film's history back into the lives of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, but in particular that of Deren. He reads the film as a culmination of Deren's abiding interest in modernism and her intense engagement in socialist politics. Rhodes argues that while the film remains a powerful point of reference for feminist film-makers and experimentalists, it is also an example of political art in the broadest terms.

In his foreword to this new edition, Rhodes reflects upon the film's continuing importance for and influence upon feminist and avant-garde filmmaking.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John David Rhodes is Lecturer in Film at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is author of the BFI Film Classic on Meshes of Afternoon (2011), Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (2007), and 'Spectactle of Property: The House in American Film' (2017) and has co-edited Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image (2011), Michelangelo Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI Publishing, 2011), and On Michael Haneke (2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Film Institute
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1838719725
• ISBN 13: 9781838719722
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible