
Cinema by Other Means
Pavle Levi(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2012
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-19-984140-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Cinema by Other Means explores an extraordinary history, stretching from the 1910s to the present: it is a study of various avant-garde endeavors to practice the cinema by using the tools, the materials, the technology, and the techniques, which either modify or are entirely different from those associated with the standard film apparatus. Using examples from both the historical and the post-war avant-garde--Dada, Surrealism, Letterism, "structural-materialist" film, and more--the book tells the tale of the multiple conditions of cinema; of a range of peculiar and imaginative ways in which filmmakers, artists, and writers have pondered and created, performed and transformed, the "movies"--with or without directly grounding their work in the materials of film.
Throughout, Levi considers works by filmmakers, artists, and theorists from all over Europe--France, Italy, Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary--with a special emphasis on the Yugoslav avant-garde. This is the first study to offer the English-language reader a thorough explication of an assortment of distinctly Yugoslav artistic phenomena, such as the Zenithist cine-writings of the 1920s, the proto-structural Antifilm movement of the early 1960s, and the "ortho-dialectical" film-poetry of the 1970s.
Throughout, Levi considers works by filmmakers, artists, and theorists from all over Europe--France, Italy, Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary--with a special emphasis on the Yugoslav avant-garde. This is the first study to offer the English-language reader a thorough explication of an assortment of distinctly Yugoslav artistic phenomena, such as the Zenithist cine-writings of the 1920s, the proto-structural Antifilm movement of the early 1960s, and the "ortho-dialectical" film-poetry of the 1970s.
Reviews / Votes
In 1968, while exhibiting American avant-garde films in Europe, I discovered that the Yugoslavian experimental cinema was at once the most sophisticated and least known in Europe. At long last, it has found its exponent and brilliant exegete in Pavle Levi. Cinema by Other Means is an invaluable contribution to film history. * P. Adams Sitney, Princeton University * Here is a work of truly original thought and research, drawn from material not merely unfamiliar, but hitherto unsuspected of existing by scholars of film, of literature, and the visual arts. Drawing upon material exhumed from within the texts and images of modernism's expansion throughout Europe from 1900 on, Pavle Levi maps and analyzes an unexamined mode of the cinematic. * Annette Michelson, New York University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Film buffs interested in avant-garde cinema; scholars of para-cinema and experimental film in general; readers of periodicals like Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Screen, Adaptation, Film Comment, Bright Lights Film Journal, Slavic Review, and Critical Quarterly.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
65 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-984140-0 (9780199841400)
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Person
Pavle Levi is Assistant Professor of Film at Stanford University.
Content
Preamble ; 1. Film, Or the Vibrancy of Matter ; 2. On Re-materialization of the Cinematographic Apparatus ; 3. Written Films ; 4. Notes Around General Cinefication ; 5. Whither the Imaginary Signifier? ; 6. The 'Between' of Cinema ; Index