Slow writing
Subtitle: Thom Andersen on cinema
By: edited by Mark Webber
Publisher: The Visible Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780992837723
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; History; Motion picture producers and directors; Performing Arts
Other titles: Thom Andersen on cinema
Description: "Slow Writing is a collection of articles by Thom Andersen that reflect on the avant-garde, Hollywood feature films, and contemporary cinema. His critiques of artists and filmmakers as diverse as Yasujirō Ozu, Nicholas Ray, Andy Warhol, and Christian Marclay locate their work within the broader spheres of popular culture, politics, history, architecture, and the urban landscape. The city of Los Angeles and its relationship to film is a recurrent theme. These writings, which span a period of five decades, demonstrate Andersen's social consciousness, humor and his genuine appreciation of cinema in its many forms. Thom Andersen's films include the celebrated documentary essays 'Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer' (1975), 'Los Angeles Plays Itself' (2003), and 'The Thoughts That Once We Had' (2015). Together with Noël Burch, he produced primary studies of the Hollywood Blacklist in the form of the book 'Les communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs' (1994) and film 'Red Hollywood' (1996)."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and filmography (pages 265-276).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why I did not become a film critic (2017); title: Sex in limbo (1966); title: Camp, Andy Warhol (1966); title: Two films by Andrew Meyer (1966); title: Eadweard Muybridge (1966); title: DeMille's Ded Zeppelin (1978); title: What is wrong with this picture? Almost everything (1978); title: JB (1978); title: Twelve films by five American filmmakers (1979); title: From the cloud to the resistance (Dalla nube all resistenza) by Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, from two texts by Cesare Pavese (1981); title: Reagan at the movies (1986); title: "The time of the toad" (1992); title: The misogyny game (1993); title: Looking over an underground (1994); title: The whole equation (2005); title: The political documentary in America today (2005); title: The sixties without compromise: watching Warhol's films (2005); title: Painting in the shadows (2007); title: Passing through twilight (2007); title: Los Angeles: a city on film (2008); title: This property is condemned (2008); title: Pebbles left on the beach: the films of Morgan Fisher (2009); title: Against the grain (2009); title: A band of outsiders (2010); title: Happy daze (2010); title: The decade in review: sketches of history 2000-2009 (2010); title: Unchained melodies: The agony and the ecstasy of Phil Spector and It felt like a kiss (2010); title: Get out of the car: a commentary (2011); title: Random notes on a projection of The clock by Christian Marclay at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 4:32 p.m., July 28, 2011-5:02 p.m., July 29, 2011 (2011); title: Barbarians at the gate (2012); title: Yasujirō Ozu: the master of time (2012); title: Too late to stop now (2013); title: Fire in every shot: Wang Bing's Three sisters (2013); title: The allure of failure (2014); title: 500 words (2016).