Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making
by Stan Brakhage, Bruce R. McPherson
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Author: Bruce R. McPherson, Stan BrakhageEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-08-03
ISBN: 092970164X
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: McPherson
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Book Review: the best brakhage book
Summary: 5 Stars
After plodding through Brakhage's "Metaphors on Vision" as well as "the Brakhage Scrapbook" during my research on this amazing filmmaker, I was thankful to find Brakhage's most interesting and significant writings collected into this single volume. It truly is the "essential brakhage." Personally, I don't really think that much of what else remains in those OTHER two volumes (all those difficult writings and collections of artist's notes and confounding letters full of puns)is worth the reading effort for most readers.
Summary of Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making
n the course of making nearly 400 films over the past 50 years, "Stan Brakhage" became synonymous with independent American filmmaking, particularly its avant-garde component. This major collection of writings draws primarily upon two long out-of-print books--Metaphors on Vision and Brakhage Scrapbook. Brakhage examines filmmaking in relation to social and professional contexts, the nature of influence and collaboration, the aesthetics of personal experience, and the conditions under which various films were made. Brakhage discusses his predecessors and contemporaries, relates film to dance and poetry, and in "A Moving Picture Giving and Taking Book" provides a manual for the novice filmmaker. Lectures, interviews, essays, and manifestos document Brakhage's personal vision and public persona.Performing Arts Books
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