hardcover in dust jacket., small blue mark to bottom edge against spine. no other flaws or wear. clean. no text or ownership markings. no bumps, tears, creases. strong binding.; english text. translations by jeanine herman.; xviii-213pp., illustrations, stills in color and b/w., writings on and by jean painleve. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Titre

Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve

�diteur

The MIT Press/Brico Press, Cambridge/San Francisco

Date de parution

2000

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0262024721

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780262024723

Reliure

Hardcover

�dition

First American Edition.

�tat de l'article

Near Fine Plus

�tat de la jaquette

Fine

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Film Studies

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

The first book on pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlev�, the father of science cinema.

One of the first to plunge underwater with a camera to bring the subaquatic world to the screen, maverick scientific documentary filmmaker Jean Painlev� (1902-1989) captured the throes of a male seahorse giving birth, the geometric choreography of crystal formation, and the mating habits of hermaphrodite mollusks. In a lifetime spanning nearly the history of cinema itself, Painlev� made over 200 films, including The Seahorse, Freshwater Assassins, The Vampire, and The Love Life of the Octopus. His lyrical and instructive animal behavior films set to avant-garde scores were much admired by Surrealist contemporaries such as Antonin Artaud, Luis Bu�uel, and Jean Vigo.

Science Is Fiction includes Marina McDougall's historically informative "Hybrid Roots," Brigitte Berg's heavily illustrated biographical essay "Contradictory Forces," art critic Ralph Rugoff's "Fluid Mechanics," a Lib�ration interview with Painlev�, stills from Painlev�'s most celebrated films laid out in storyboard fashion, and a selection of Painlev�'s writings appearing for the first time in English. The latter include "Neo-Zoological Drama," a playful romp on the behavior of Turbellaria, or flatworms; "Mysteries and Miracles of Nature," an idiosyncratic catalog of unusual animal behavior; and "Scientific Film," a discussion of science films that pays homage to Painlev�'s fellow pioneers. The book also includes French film critic Andr� Bazin's "Science Film: Accidental Beauty," a review of the 1947 International Association of Science Film festival, organized by Painlev�.

Copublished with Brico Press.

� propos de l?auteur

Andy Masaki Bellows, the publisher of Brico Press, works for City Lights Books, San Francisco.

Marina McDougall, a curator, initiated the first United States retrospective of Jean Painlev�'s films in 1991.

Brigitte Berg is the director of Les Documents Cin�matographiques in Paris, an independent archive founded by Jean Painlev� in 1930.

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