Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work — some seventy hours — is one of the largest of any filmmaker in the history of cinema, and one of the most diverse. Probably the most widely quoted experimental filmmaker in history, his films typify the independent cinema.
Until now, despite well-deserved acclaim, there has been no comprehensive study of Brakhage’s oeuvre. The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition fills this void. R. Bruce Elder delineates the aesthetic parallels between Brakhage’s films and a broad spectrum of American art from the 1920s through the 1960s.
This book is certain to stir the passions of those interested in artistic critique and interpretation in its broadest terms.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-543) and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 791.43/023/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Stan Brakhage filmography"-- P. 545-553 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0889202753 9780889208162
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- PN1998.3.B74
- LCCN Item number
- E42 1998eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 572 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- With Gratitude 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Preface 14
- From the Givenness of Nature to the Encumbered Modern Body 21
- The Signifying Body 25
- The Two Bodies in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Body Observed Externally and the Body Experienced from Within 31
- The Modern Body's Unbearable Burden of Being 43
- The Harmony of Spirit and Body 50
- The Primacy of the Subject Body and the Recessiveness of the Subject Body 54
- Chapter 1. Four for America: Williams, Pound, Stein, Brakhage 58
- Styles of English Metre 58
- Meaning and Personal Being: Pound and Brakhage 77
- The Seachange: Or, How Pound Came "To Break the Pentameter" 82
- Bergson, Hulme, Pound, and Brakhage on the Body and Energy 88
- Experience as Energy: A Pattern for Thinking 113
- First-Person Singular: Bergson, Hulme, and Brakhage on the Primacy of Individuality 159
- Between Self and World: The Image in Hulme, Williams, Brakhage 170
- Writing = Composing Sound's Energies, Filmmaking = Composing Light's Energies: Gertrude Stein and Stan Brakhage's Conceptions of Their Media 225
- Digressive Interpolation: The Persistence of Emerson's Vision in Stein's Writing and Brakhage's Filmmaking 241
- Out of Stein: A Theory of Meaning for Stan Brakhage's Films 253
- The Paradox of a Perlocutionary Semantics: Brakhage and Stein on Artistic Meaning 274
- The Romanticism of Brakhage's Conception of Meaning 308
- Chapter 2. The Conception of the Body in Open Form Poetics and Its Influence on Stan Brakhage's Filmmaking 322
- D.H. Lawrence and the Poetics of Energy 322
- Two Crucial Influences on Embodied Poetics: A.N. Whitehead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty 326
- A.N. Whitehead's Project: Reconciling Permanence and Flux 338
- Olson's Energetics of Embodied Existence 361
- Michael McClure's Poetics: The Body Is an Organism. The Universe Is an Organism. A Poem Embodies an Aspect of the Universe's Evolving Form 436
- Allen Ginsberg: The Breath, the Voice, and the Poem 445
- Action Painting as Performance 455
- Glossary 466
- A 466
- B 467
- C 468
- D 469
- E 470
- F 472
- G 473
- H 473
- I 473
- K 475
- L 475
- M 475
- N 476
- O 476
- P 478
- Q 481
- R 481
- S 482
- T 483
- V 484
- W 485
- Notes 486
- Selected Bibliography 546
- Stan Brakhage Filmography 558
- Index 568
- A 568
- B 569
- C 570
- D 571
- E 572
- F 573
- G 573
- H 574
- I 574
- J 575
- K 575
- L 575
- M 576
- N 577
- O 578
- P 578
- Q 580
- R 580
- S 581
- T 583
- U 583
- V 583
- W 584
- Y 585
- Z 585
