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About this book
"Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors."âYoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental "language art." It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script is introduced and contextualized by MacDonald; a filmography and a bibliography round out the volume. This is a readableâoften quite funnyâliterature that investigates differences between seeing and reading. Represented are avant-garde classics such as Hollis Frampton's Poetic Justice and Zorns Lemma and Morgan Fisher's Standard Gauge, and William Greaves's recently rediscovered Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. Michael Snow turns film loose on language in So Is This; Peter Rose turns language loose on theory in Pressures of the Text. Some of the most influential feminist filmscripts of recent decadesâLaura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx, Su Friedrich's Gently Down the Stream, Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage, Yvonne Rainer's Privilege âconfirm this book's importance for readers in gender and cultural studies as well as for filmmakers and admirers of experimental writing, independent cinema, and the visual arts in general.
"Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors."âYoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents 1
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Yoko Ono
- Mini Film Scripts
- William Greaves
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Directorâs Early Notes Prior to and during Production in the Spring of 1968
- Transcript of Excerpt from Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
- Program Notes for Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
- Hollis Frampton
- Narration from Part I of Zorns Lemma
- Notes on Zorns Lemma
- Narration from Part 3 of Zorns Lemma
- Text of Poetic Justice
- Text of Gloria!
- Laura Mulvey/Peter Wollen
- Script of Riddles of the Sphinx
- James Benning
- âRespect your flagâŚâ âfrom Grand Opera
- Script for âNew York 1980"
- Michael Snow
- Text of So Is This
- Peter Rose
- Introduction to Pleasures of the Text
- Text of Secondary Currents
- Morgan Fisher
- Script of Standard Gauge
- Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Script of Naked SpacesâLiving Is Round
- Su Friedrich
- (Script) for a Film without Images
- Text of Gently Down the Stream
- Script of Sink or Swim
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Transcript of New Shoes: An Interview in Exactly 5 Minutes
- Transcript and Text from You Take Care Now
- Yvonne Rainer
- Script of Privilege
- Distribution Sources
- Selected Bibliography