Film and Video - Alternative Views

Informationen zum Autor Mr. Kostelanetz is a prolific author! critic! editor! and artist. Since the 1960's he has written and edited close to one hundred books! including Imaged Words and Worded Images (1970)! Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973)! Text-Sound Texts (1980)! Wordworks (1993)! and the monumental Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (2nd ed.! 1999). Klappentext Cultural Writing. Film Studies. Having already published collections of critical essays on fiction! poetry! performance! politics and visual art! Richard Kostelanetz for the first time selects here from his writings on film and video. As in earlier volumes! these essays emphasize the primacy of possibilities intrinsic in each medium. Always representing radical alternatives! he writes with uncommon perception not only about familiar issues but about films customarily forgotten! and always with his customary clarity. Also included are prefaces and transcripts from his own films and videos. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE t ix; t PART I. FILM AND VIDEO CRITICISM; 1. The Artistry of Television Football (1969) t 001; 2. Recent Experimental Film Reconsidered (1970) t 007; 3. Orson Welles as an Acoustic Filmmaker (1989) t 021; 4. Literary Videotapes (1989) t 030; 5. Waiting for Revisionism (1991) t 047; 6. Nam June Paik Remembrance (1992) t 038; 7. The Institutionalization of Ignorance (1993) t 040; 8. Fast-Forwarding Through "Classic Arts Showcase" (2000) t 043; 9. Responses to a Questionnaire (2000) t 049; 10. Proposal for a Critical Book on "Animated Music" (2002) t 052; t PART II. THEORY AND EXPERIMENTATION; 11. Literary Video (1976) t 049; 12. Film (1977) t 052; 13. Video Writing (1987) t 053; 14. My Nonsync! Two-Person Films (1989) t 058; 15. Authenticity in "Documentary" (1991) t 065; 16. Language-Based Videotapes (1992) t 068; 17. Remembering My Life in/ of Words (2002) t 072; t PART III. SCRIPTS; 18. Epiphanies (1993) t 079; 19. Home Movies Reconsidered (1989) t 085; 20. Six Versions of A Berlin Lost (1992) t 098; t PART IV. NOTES OF A RELUCTANT FILMGOER; 21. (1959-98) t 123; t PART V. TRANIMATIONS: POETRY/FILM STORYBOARDS; 22. (which are 1999 black & white graphics for verbal animations but meant finally for print! in the tradition of; Moholy's "Dynamic of a Metropolis") t 191; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS t 207; INDEX t 205; ABOUT THE AUTHOR t 209. ...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kostelanetz
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2006
• EAN: 9781570271663
• ISBN: 978-1-57027-166-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet