The Films of Bill Morrison : : Aesthetics of the Archive / / ed. by Bernd Herzogenrath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• MitwirkendeR: Afshar, Yasmin,; Berressem, Hanjo,; Betka, Benjamin,; Binotto, Johannes,; Cusick, William,; Gersten, David,; Habib, André,; Herzogenrath, Bernd,; Hoffmann, Eva,; Horak, Jan-Christopher,; Léon, Benjamin,; Morgenstern, Hans,; Pierron, Andrea,; Popple, Simon,; Reynaud, Bérénice,; Sandhu, Sukhdev,; Streible, Dan,; Villete, Agnes,; Weschler, Lawrence,
• HerausgeberIn: Herzogenrath, Bernd,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Framing Film
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 color plates, 20 halftones

Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and his 2002 film Decasia was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career. It gathers specialists throughout film studies to explore Morrison's "aesthetics of the archive"-his creative play with archival footage and his focus on the materiality of the medium of film.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Aesthetics Of The Archive An Introduction -- Chapter 1. Drafts And Fragments Reflections Around Bill Morrison And The Paper Print Collection -- Chapter 2.The Film Of Her The Cine-Poet Laureate Of Orphan Films -- Chapter 3.Ghost Trip Searching For Potential Myths -- Chapter 4. Decasia The Matter Image: Film Is Also A Thing -- Chapter 5 .The Mesmerist Illustrating The Return Of The Repressed -- Chapter 6. Light Is Calling Celluloid Dreams -- Chapter 7. Gotham Zoetrope: Block By Block -- Chapter 8.Outerborough Early Cinema Revisited -- Chapter 9. The Highwater Trilogy Thinking The Liquid - On The Ethics Of Water And The Material Ecologies Of Disaster And Ruination -- Chapter 10. Porch Archives, Collective Memory, And The Poetics Of Home Movies -- Chapter 11. The Future Lasts Long The Romanov Lost Family Archives -- Chapter 12.Who By Water Variations On Matter, Figures, Memory, And Mythology -- Chapter 13. Every Stop On The F-Train Beyond And Within The Restless Netherworld Of (Manhattan'S) Mind -- Chapter 14.Spark Of Being Bachelor Machine -- Chapter 15. The Miners' Hymns Acts Of Resurrection -- Chapter 16.Tributes - Pulse: A Requiem For The 20Th Century Death Drive Image -- Chapter 17.Just Ancient Loops The Loops Of Life In Intonation -- Chapter 18.The Great Flood Water Is Transparence Derived From The Presence Of Everything -- Chapter 19. Re-Awakenings Bill Morrison In Conversation -- Index Of Film Titles -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects