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Allegories of Cinema : American Film in the Sixties by David E. James (1989, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691006040
ISBN-139780691006048
eBay Product ID (ePID)812526
Product Key Features
Number of Pages402 Pages
Publication NameAllegories of Cinema : American Film in the Sixties
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFilm / Genres / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year1989
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid E. James
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight32.9 Oz
Item Length10.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN88-009852
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"One of the most significant film books in recent years. . . . stands as the definitive cinematic analysis [of the era]." -- Film Quarterly
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.43/0973
SynopsisFrom Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol to the underground cinema and political films, David James gives a thorough account of the growth, development, and decay of nonstudio film practices in the United States between the late fifties and the mid-seventies. Unlike other scholars who discuss these practices as totally separate from Hollywood, James argues that they were developed in various kinds of dialogue or negotiation with the commercial film industry. He also demonstrates that the formal properties of the films were determined not simply by aesthetic considerations but by the functions the films served in the various subcultures and dissident groups that produced them. After an opening chapter on film hermeneutics, the book gives detailed accounts of the contrary projects of two exemplary filmmakers: Stan Brakhage, who pioneered an artisanal, domestic film practice, and Andy Warhol, who redirected such a practice toward the film industry. James then discusses the beats and other idealist countercultures, the social groups that formed around civil rights and the Vietnam War, artists who shunned social involvement for pure film ("structural" film), and finally the women's movement.
LC Classification NumberPN1993.5.U6J27 1989
