Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology
- ISBN-10
- 0520276744
- ISBN-13
- 9780520276741
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 651
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-26
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Scott MacKenzie
Description
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European ÒwavesÓ and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme Ô95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, SanjinŽs, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Bu–uel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bolla’n, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, PainlevŽ, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.
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