A Body of Vision : Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry.

A Body of Vision : Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry.

Elder examines how artists such as Brakhage, Artaud, Schneemann, Cohen and others have tried to recognise and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning from any of those that...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1997.
Subjects:
Human body in literature.
Human body in motion pictures.
Experimental films > History and criticism.
Experimental films
Human body in literature
Human body in motion pictures
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • With Gratitude
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Human Dilemma
  • The Anxious Body of Shame44; Disgust44; or Appalling Death58; Films by Bruce Conner
  • The Troubling Body of Sexual Difference58; Williard Maas39;s58; The Geography of the Body
  • The Complexities of Identification8212;Walter Gutman and the Body Remade as Whole
  • The Body as Sacred8212;The Films of James Broughton44; Especially58; The Golden Positions
  • The Body and the Cosmos8212;The Films of Ed Emshwiller
  • First Digression58; The Theory of Transformation and Its Importance to Understanding the Uniqueness of Artistic Meaning
  • Ed Emshwiller39;s Mixed Mode of Cinema Contrasted with the Lyrical Film
  • The Body as the Universe in Stan Brakhage39;s Early Films
  • The Body Electric58; Of Wilhelm Reich and Antonin Artaud8212;Laying the Groundwork for Carolee Schneemann39;s Body Art
  • Second Digression58; A Mystical View of the Body under the Pervasive Influence of Gnosticism8212;Laying the Groundwork for Leonard Cohen39;s Writings on the Body and Carolee Schneemann39;s Films and Performances
  • Leonard Cohen39;s Gnosticism and Its Influence on His Conception of the Body
  • The Influence of Gnosticism on the Writings of Antonin Artaud
  • The Body of Gnostic Energy in the Work of Carolee Schneemann
  • The Body of Transcendental Flesh8212;The Films of James Herbert
  • The Cognitive Body8212;The Films of Amy Greenfield and Another View of the Films of Stan Brakhage
  • The Pneumatic Body8212;The Films of Andrew Noren
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z
  • Last Page.

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