Pop Cinema
Published on 31. October 2024
282 pages
978-1-4744-9793-0 (ISBN)
Description
Pop Cinema is the first book devoted to moving image works which engage with the central thematics and aesthetics of Pop Art. The essays in the collection focus in on the core concerns of Pop as a widespread and ideologically complex art movement, and examine the ways in which artists in various global locations have used forms of film practice outside of the mainstream to explore those preoccupations. The book's contributors also identify the ways in which dominant Pop aesthetics - flat planes of bold colour, mechanical forms of repetition, appropriation of materials from popular culture sources - were adopted, reworked, or abandoned by such filmmakers. At root, the book asks three basic questions: what shapes might a Pop form of cinema take, what materials would it engage with, and what might it have to say?
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Glyn Davis | Tom Day
Pop Cinema
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10/2024
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures/Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Towards a Pop Cinema
- Part 1: Framing Pop Cinema
- 1. Notes on Pop Cinema, Revisited
- 2. Pop and Cinema: Three Tendencies
- Part 2: Pop Cinema's Parameters
- 3. Times Square as Pop Readymade: William Klein's Broadway by Light (1958)
- 4. Arocha's Black and White Pop: History, Desire and Politics in 1960s Colombia in Las ventanas de Salcedo (1966)
- 5. Psychedelic Agit-Pop: The Animated Films of Tadanori Yokoo
- 6. Some Like It Pop: Replication and Repetition in Bruce Conner's MARILYN TIMES FIVE (1968-73)
- 7. A Lost White Girl of Pop: Writing the Drive to Fantasise in Daddy (1973)
- Part 3: Pop Cinema, Mass Production and the Politics of Consumption
- 8. Always Crashing in the Same Car
- 9. Wynn Chamberlain's Brand X (1970) and the Politics of the Generic
- 10. The Other Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Pop Cinema in Eastern Europe
- 11. 'Mouthpiece of the Dictatorship': Television and the Domestic Sphere in Brazilian Women's 'Pop Cinema', 1972-77
- 12. 'Manhandle the Merchandise': Michael Snow's Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (1976)
- Appendix: A Pop Cinema Filmography
- Index
