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Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions
Author(s): Michael O′pray (Author)
- Publisher: Wallflower Press
- Publication Date: 15 May 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 1903364566
- ISBN-13: 9781903364567
Book Description
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema and the French New Wave, structuralism and contemporary gallery work of the young British artists. Through in-depth case-studies, the book introduces students not only to the history of the avant-garde but also to varied analytical approaches to the films themselves – ranging from abstraction (Richter, Ruttmann) to surreal visions (Bunuel, Wyn Evans), underground subversion (Jack Smith, Warhol) to experimental narrative (Deren and Antonioni).
Editorial Reviews
Review
A good balance of historical detail with lucid and engaging textual analysis. — Ben Cook, The Lux Centre
A good starting point for anyone interested in avant-garde film. —
Julia Knight, University of LutonAbout the Author
Michael O’Pray is Reader in Film in School of Art and Design, University of East London and has published widely on experimental cinema and artists’ film and video.
