Shadows, Specters, Shards : Making History in Avant-Garde Film.
Title:
Shadows, Specters, Shards : Making History in Avant-Garde Film.
Author:
Skoller, Jeffrey.
ISBN:
9780816695317
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shards: Allegory as Historical Procedure -- Eureka -- Dal polo all'equatore -- Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America -- 2. Shadows: Historical Temporalities 1 -- The Man without a World -- Urban Peasants -- Cooperation of Parts -- 3. Virtualities: Historical Temporalities 2 -- Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro -- Persistence -- B/Side -- Utopia -- 4. Specters: The Limits of Representing History -- Signal-Germany on the Air -- Killer of Sheep -- Un vivant qui passe -- 5. Obsessive Returns: Filmmaking as Mourning Work -- El día que me quieras -- Chile, la memoria obstinada -- Coda: Notes on History and the Postcinema Condition -- Rock Hudson's Home Movies -- Dichotomy -- Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography and Distributors -- Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Shadows, Specters, Shards examines experimental films, including work by Eleanor Antin, Ernie Gehr, and Jean-Luc Godard, that take up events such as the Holocaust, Latin American independence struggles, and urban politics. In his discussion of avant-garde film of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Jeffrey Skoller reveals how a nuanced understanding of the past is linked to the artistry of image making and storytelling.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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