Melancholy Lens - Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema

In The Melancholy Lens, author Tony Pipolo offers new insight into the psychological motivations of avant-garde filmmakers Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, Ken Jacobs, and Ernie Gehr, focusing on aspects of their lives that impacted their art.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Father Time: Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and Ritual in Transfigured Time


• Chapter 2. This Common Clay: Stan Brakhage and Tortured Dust


• Chapter 3. A Dance with Death: Gregory Markopoulos and The Mysteries


• Chapter 4. Eros Interrupted: Robert Beavers's The Ground and Sotiros


• Chapter 5. The Tempering Frame: Ernie Gehr's Media Romance


• Afterword


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Tony Pipolo is Professor Emeritus of Film and Literature at CUNY, New York. He is also a psychoanalyst in private practice and writes frequently on film for various journals and magazines.

Summary

In The Melancholy Lens, author Tony Pipolo offers new insight into the psychological motivations of avant-garde filmmakers Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, Ken Jacobs, and Ernie Gehr, focusing on aspects of their lives that impacted their art.

Additional text

Pipolo illuminates what is most exhilarating and troubling in films he feels as passionately about as do the most dedicated viewers of American avant-garde film.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Pipolo, Tony (Professor Emeritus of Film and Liter Pipolo, Pipolo Tony
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780197551172
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755117-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Individual actors & performers, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Individual actors and performers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film production: technical & background skills, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills