David E. James (ed.)

To Free the Cinema

Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground
Herausgeber: James, David E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however, leading film commentators here offer fascinating insights into Mekas's career as a writer, filmdistributor, and film-maker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the establishment of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers Co-op (the major distribution center for independent film), his interaction with other artists, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. The contributors to this volume are Paul Arthur, Vyt Bakaitis, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Rudy Burckhardt, David Curtis, Richard Foreman, Tom Gunning, Bob Harris, J. Hoberman, David E. James, Marjorie Keller, Peter Kubelka, George Kuchar, Richard Leacock, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Scott Nygren, John Pruitt, Lauren Rabinovitz, Michael Renov, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, and Maureen Turim.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780691023458
• ISBN-10: 069102345X
• Artikelnr.: 21682402

Autorenporträt

Edited by David E. James

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1
Introduction
3
2
Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and
Politics of the Sixties
17
3
The Old Days
49
4
Jonas Mekas: A European Critic in America
51
5
"Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris
62
6
The Apron Strings of Jonas Mekas
83
7
How I Think I Made Some of My Films
97
8
The Forest and The Trees
100
9
Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas
121
10
During the Second Half of the Sixties
138
11
Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden
145
12
A Portfolio of Photographs
180
13
Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths
193
14
My Contacts with Jonas Mekas
213
15
Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist
215
16
Dear Friends
240
17
Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting
the Seconds of His Life
241
18
A Tale of Two Co-ops
255
19
Jonas Mekas
266
20
Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the
American Avant-Garde Cinema
268
21
Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas?
284
22
Video at Anthology
286
23
I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas
293
24
Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World
294
Appendices
313
A
Autobiographical Notes
315
B
Filmography
321
C
Showcases I Ran in the Sixties
323
B
Books Published
325
Index
327