Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990 (Film and Media Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1771123036 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 379 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Long chapters are given over to Soviet filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, and Sergei Parajanov, as well as the German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. Throughout the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly with reports from the Telluride Film Festival. Brakhage was a keen viewer of these filmmakers and their contemporaries, both at Telluride and in his role as teacher at the University of Colorado, and Stan Brakhage and Rolling Stock attempts to place his work alongside theirs and thus reclaim him for world cinema.The book's appendices reprint letters Brakhage wrote to Stella Pence (Telluride's co-founder and managing director), as well as summaries of his work for Telluride and a brace of difficult-to-find reviews.. Filmmaker Stan Brakhage has long been known as a giant of experimental cinema, but this collection shows him
Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of numerous books on film, including Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (WLU Press, 2013).
He is the author of numerous books on film, including Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (WLU Press, 2013). About the AuthorJerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University.