The modernist poetics and experimental film practice of Maya Deren, (1917-1961)
By: Renata Jackson.
Series: Studies in history and criticism of film ;; v. 5
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Deren, Maya -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Filmography (p. 215-216).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Voices of Maya Deren in Theme and Variation; title: Chapters; title: I. A Thematic Biography; title: Heritage, Education, and Political Activism; title: Writing as Political and Creative Expression; title: Deren and Dunham; title: New Vocations, New Causes; title: II. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Anagram; title: The Structure of Anagram; title: Socio-historical Commentary and Moral Tenets; title: A Modernist Aesthetics; title: Filmmaker/Theorist as Art Critic; title: III. Deren's Modernist Film Poetics; title: The Nature of the Medium; title: Filmmaker/Theorist as Film Critic; title: A Poetics of Film; title: IV. Deren's Ritualist Aesthetics; title: Deren on Ritual Forms; title: The "Visual Fugue" Project: A Cross-Cultural Counterpoint; title: Deren in Haiti: The "Visual Fugue" Project Reconsidered; title: Deren as Ethnographer; title: The Haitian Footage; title: V. Theory into Practice; title: Film as a Time-Form; title: Choreographies for Camera; title: Inverted Odysseys; title: Authorial Intent, Intuitive Reception, and Moral Responsibility; title: Coda: Stretto Variations; title: Appendix: Maya Deren Filmography.