Off-screen cinema
Subtitle: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist avant-garde
By: Kaira M. Cabañas
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780226174457; 9780226174594
Subjects: Lettrism; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Experimental films; Cinematography; Special effects; History; Lettrism in motion pictures
Description: One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Offering a full portrait of the avant-garde scene of 1950s Paris, this book focuses on the film works of key Lettrist figures like Gil J. Wolman, Maurice Lemaitre, Francois Dufrene, and especially the movement's founder, Isidore Isou, a Romanian immigrant whose 'discrepant editing' deliberately uncoupled image and sound.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: To salivate is not to speak, as boring as watching dust; title: French cinema dies of suffocation; title: Spasmodic spurts of white light on a sphere; title: Eroticism should occur in the audience; title: Epilogue.