Avant-garde to New Wave
Title | Avant-garde to New Wave PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan L. Owen |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-02-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780857451279 |
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde
Title | Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Rexer |
Publisher | Abradale Press |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 2002-05 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
And now, for the first time in book form, Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde charts this full-blown rebellion of contemporary photographers against the advent of digital technology and their reversion to photographic methods used in the nineteenth century.".
Avant-garde Film
Title | Avant-garde Film PDF eBook |
Author | Michael O'Pray |
Publisher | Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | 150 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781903364567 |
Annotation Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
The Czechoslovak New Wave
Title | The Czechoslovak New Wave PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hames |
Publisher | Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Czechoslovakia |
ISBN | 9781904764427 |
This study of the most significant movement in post-war Central and East European cinema examines the origins and development of Czechoslovakian film during this time, as well as the political and cultural changes which influenced some of the most important works.
Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday
Title | Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Brown |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857450794 |
The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term “1968” can by no means be confined under the rubric of “protest,” understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to “1968” frequently involved attempts to elaborate resistance within the realm of culture generally, and in the arts in particular. This blurring of the boundary between art and politics was a characteristic development of the political activism of the postwar period. This volume brings together a group of essays concerned with the multifaceted link between culture and politics, highlighting lesser-known case studies and opening new perspectives on the development of anti-authoritarian politics in Europe from the 1950s to the fall of Communism and beyond.
Avant-Garde Film
Title | Avant-Garde Film PDF eBook |
Author | Michael O'Pray |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 145 |
Release | 2003-09-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 023185000X |
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema and the French New Wave, structuralism and contemporary gallery work of the young British artists. Through in-depth case-studies, the book introduces students not only to the history of the avant-garde but also to varied analytical approaches to the films themselves - ranging from abstraction (Richter, Ruttmann) to surreal visions (Bunuel, Wyn Evans), underground subversion (Jack Smith, Warhol) to experimental narrative (Deren and Antonioni).
Lovers of Cinema
Title | Lovers of Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jan-Christopher Horak |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780299146849 |
Historians and students of American avant-garde cinema often overlook the films of the 1920s through the early 1940s, considering them mere derivatives of their European counterparts. In fact, the American films possess an eclecticism, innovation, and naivete all their own. Marshaling his broad cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled in Lovers of Cinema a ground-breaking group of articles on this neglected film period. With one exception, all are original to this volume, and many are the first to treat comprehensively such early filmmakers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff, and Douglass Crockwell.