| Description |
1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
|
| Contents |
Film writing and the figure of death : He stands in a desert counting the seconds of his life / Scott Nygren -- A tale of two co-ops / David Curtis -- Jonas Mekas / Stan Brakhage -- Wearing the critic's hat : history, critical discourses, and the American avant-garde cinema / Lauren Rabinovitz -- Who is afraid of Jonas Mekas? / Nam June Paik -- Video at anthology / Bob Harris -- I feel passionate about the film journals of Jonas Mekas / Richard Leacock -- Home movies of the avant-garde : Jonas Mekas and the New York art world / Jeffrey K. Ruoff -- Appendix A : Autobiographical notes ; Appendix B : Filmography ; Appendix C : Showcases I ran in the sixties ; Appendix D : Books published / Jonas Mekas |
|
Routines of emancipation : alternative cinema in the ideology and politics of the sixties / Paul Arthur -- The old days / George Kuchar -- Jonas Mekas : a European critic in America / John Pruitt -- "Loved him, hated it" : an interview with Andrew Sarris / Tom Gunning -- The apron strings of Jonas Mekas / Marjorie Keller -- How I think I made some of my films / Rudy Burckhardt -- The forest and The trees / J. Hoberman -- Notes on displacement : the poems and diary films of Jonas Mekas / Vyt Bakaitis -- During the second half of the sixties / Richard Foreman -- Film diary/diary film : practice and product in Walden / David E. James -- A portfolio of photographs / Peter Moore -- Reminiscences, subjectivities, and truths / Maureen Turim -- My contacts with Jonas Mekas / Robert Breer -- Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist / Michael Renov -- Dear friends / Peter Kubelka |
| Summary |
And Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden |
|
Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the establishment of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers Co-op (the major distribution center for independent film), his interaction with other artists, including John Lennon |
|
Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigre and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however, leading film commentators here offer fascinating insights into Mekas's career as a writer |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Criticism and interpretation
|
|
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-
|
|
Mekas, Jonas, 1922- -- Critique et interpretation
|
|
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 -- Criticism and interpretation
|
|
Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019 |
|
Mekas, Jonas 1922-2019 |
|
Mekas, Jonas. |
|
Experimental films -- New York (State) -- New York
|
|
Motion picture industry -- New York (State) -- New York
|
|
Motion picture industry
|
|
Experimental films
|
|
Aufsatzsammlung
|
|
Untergrundfilm
|
|
Experimentalfilm
|
|
Filmindustrie.
|
|
Experimentele filmkunst.
|
|
New York (State) -- New York
|
|
USA
|
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
91031685 |
| ISBN |
9780691219554 |
|
0691219559 |
|
9780691078946 |
|
9780691023458 |
|
0691078947 |
|
069102345X |
|
