AvantGarde Film Forms, Themes and Passions
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AvantGarde Film Forms, Themes and Passions by Michael Opray
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).
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781903364567 |
| ISBN 10 | 1903364566 |
| Title | AvantGarde Film Forms, Themes and Passions |
| Author | Michael Opray |
| Series | Shortcuts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wallflower Press |
| Year published | 2003-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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