To Free the Cinema : : Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground /

To Free the Cinema : : Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground / / ed. by David E. James.

Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postw...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Arthur, Paul,
Bakaifis, Vyt,
Brakhage, Stan,
Breer, Robert,
Burckhardt, Rudy,
Curtis, David,
Foreman, Richard,
Gunning, Tom,
Harris, Bob,
Hoberman, J.,
James, David E.,
Keller, Marjorie,
Kubelka, Peter,
Kuchar, George,
Leacock, Richard,
Mekas, Jonas,
Moore, Peter,
Nygren, Scott,
Paik, Nam June,
Rabinovitz, Lauren,
Renov, Michael,
Ruoff, Jeffrey K.,
Turim, Maureen,
HerausgeberIn:
James, David E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1992
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties
  • The Old Days
  • "Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris
  • The Apron Strings of mm Jonas Mekas
  • How I Think I Made Some of My Films
  • The Forest and The Trees
  • Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas
  • During the Second Half of the Sixties
  • Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden
  • A Portfolio of Photographs
  • Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths
  • My Contacts with Jonas Mekas
  • Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist
  • Dear Friends
  • Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • A Tale of Two Co-ops
  • Jonas Mekas
  • Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema
  • Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas?
  • Video at Anthology
  • I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas
  • Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World
  • Appendixes
  • Index

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