Moving Images on the Margins - Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany

Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.

List of contents

Introduction
Art, Experimentation, and the Avant-Garde in East Germany
Heraklesmaschine: Lutz Dammbeck's Experimental Cinema and the Expropriation of the Senses
Lines of Communication: Mail Art and the Connectivity of Experimental Film
Herz Horn Haut Schrein: Film and the Autoperforating Body of/at Work
Film Experiments, Design Anthropology, and the Politics of Vision: Yana Milev's Theory of Practice
Conclusion: Images of Moving Margins
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Seth Howes

Summary

Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.

Product details

• Authors: Seth Howes, Seth (Author) Howes
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781640140684
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-068-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 601 g
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film a; Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous