Looking With Robert Gardner

Informationen zum Autor William Rothman is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami. His many books include Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy and Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner's achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema. During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925-2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre's conventions-conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead Birds in 1963, Gardner established himself as one of the world's most extraordinary independent filmmakers, working in a unique border area between ethnography, the essay film, and poetic/experimental cinema. Richly illustrated, Looking with Robert Gardner assesses the range and magnitude of Gardner's achievements not only as a filmmaker but also as a still photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema. The contributors give critical attention to Gardner's most ambitious films, such as Dead Birds (1963, New Guinea), Rivers of Sand (1975, Ethiopia), and Forest of Bliss (1986, India), as well as lesser-known films that equally exemplify his mode of seeking anthropological understanding through artistic means. They also attend to his films about artists, including his self-depiction in Still Journey OnM (2011); to his roots in experimental film and his employment of experimental procedures; and to his support of independent filmmakers through the Harvard Film Study Center and the television series Screening Room , which provided an opportunity for numerous important film and video artists to present and discuss their work.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rebecca (EDT)/ Rothman Meyers
• Collaboration: Rebecca Meyers (Editeur), Meyers Rebecca (Editeur), William Rothman (Editeur), Rothman William (Editeur), Charles Warren (Editeur)
• Edition: State University of New York Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781438460512
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6051-2
• Pages: 384
• Thèmes: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Ethnologie > Ethnologie; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism