Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson

by P. Adams Sitney

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Introduction: Emersonian Poetics. 1. Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera. 2. Ian Hugo and Superimposition. 3. Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence. 4. Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film. 5. Hollis Frampton and the Spectre of Narrative. 6. Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe. 7. Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present - The Present in the Past. 8. Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence. 9. Ernie Gehr and the Axis of show more Primary Thought. 10. Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto. 11. Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes. 12. show less

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P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His previous books include Eyes Upside Down and Visionary Film.

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Nonfiction, History, Literature Studies and Criticism, Art & Design
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791.430973Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsPublic performancesMotion pictures, radio, television, podcastingMotion picturesStandard subdivisionsHistory, geographic treatment, biography; description, critical appraisal of specific companies and studios {for specific films see 791.437}North America
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PN1995.9 .E96 .S49Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)DramaMotion pictures
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