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