Optic Antics
The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2010
305 pages
978-0-19-973956-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists and critics, all of which testify to the extraordinary variety and influence of his accomplishments. Anyone interested in cinema or experimental arts will be well-rewarded by a greater acquaintance with the genius, the innovation, and the optical antics of Ken Jacobs.
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Persons
Michele Pierson is on the faculty of the Film Studies Department at King's College London. She is the author of Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder.
David E. James is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties and The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.
Paul Arthur was Professor of English and Film Studies at Montclair State University. He is the author of Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Ken Jacobs-A Half-Century of Cinema
- 2. "A Panorama Compounded of Great Human Suffering and Ecstatic Filmic Representation": Texts on Ken Jacobs
- 3. Texts on Ken Jacobs
- 4. A Mischievous Little-Boy Revolution: The Whirled
- 5. Ken Jacobs, Moralist
- 6. The Sky Socialist : Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption
- 7. Bigger Than Life: Between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray
- 8. Acts of Delay: The Play Between Stillness and Motion in Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son
- 9. The Piper's Son: Content and Performance in the Films of Ken Jacobs
- 10. Ken Jacobs' Two Wrenching Departures
- 11. Some Jacobs Family Photos
- 12. Flo Talks!
- 13. Recycling, Visual Study, Expanded Theory-Ken Jacobs, Theorist, or the Long Song of the Sons
- 14 . Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty Seminar
- 15. Nervous Ken: XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and After
- 16. Jacobs' Bergsonism
- 17. Ken Jacobs and Ecstatic Abstraction
- 18. Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs: A Precarious, Extravagant, Populist, and Constructivist Cinema
- 19. Untitled (for Ken)
- 20. Theories of Moving Pictures: Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann
- 21. I Owe Ken Jacobs
- 22. Professor Ken
- "Avant-Garde" Filmmaker: Ken Jacobs
- Annotated Filmography and Performance History
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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