Materialist Film
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Materialist Film

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Materialist Film

About this book

A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.

Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the contradictory issues produced by experimental film. Each concept is explored in conjunction with specific films by Andy Warhol, Malcolm LeGrice, Lis Rhodes, Jean-Luc Goddard, Rose Lowder, Kurt Kren, and others.

Peter Gidal draws on important politico-aesthetic writings, and uses some of his own previously published essays from Undercut, Screen, October, and Millennium Film Journal to undertake this concrete process of working through abstract concepts. Originally published in 1989.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Illustrations
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 The one to one relation between viewer and viewed
  13. 2 The concept of arbitrariness
  14. 3 Implicating materialism with physicality
  15. 4 Presence
  16. 5 Content
  17. 6 The subject
  18. 7 Film as film
  19. 8 Perception versus knowledge
  20. 9 Fetishization of process
  21. 10 Deconstruction
  22. 11 Deconstruction and sexuality
  23. 12 Denial of semioticity
  24. 13 Andy Warhol's Kitchen (1965)
  25. 14 The stare and voyeurism
  26. 15 Lis Rhodes' Light Reading (1978)
  27. 16 Questions around structural/materialist film
  28. 17 Meaning and illusion
  29. 18 The close-up
  30. 19 Context
  31. 20 History
  32. 21 The literal
  33. 22 Artistic subject/aesthetic subject
  34. 23 Duration
  35. 24 Splice
  36. 25 Filmmakers' statements
  37. 26 Performance
  38. 27 Film as material
  39. 28 Cinema verité
  40. 29 Audience numbers and sex
  41. 30 Rose Lowder's Composed Recurrence (1981)
  42. 31 Kurt Kren's TV (1966)
  43. 32 The London Filmmakers Co-operative
  44. 33 Repetition
  45. 34 Humanism and anti-humanism
  46. 35 Socialism/optimism/pessimism
  47. 36 A little polemic on production
  48. 37 Autonomy and anonymity
  49. Notes
  50. Index