Film manifestos and global cinema cultures : a critical anthology

MacKenzie, Scott 1967- (Author).

Summary: "Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European "waves" and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme '95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollain, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture." -- Publisher's website.

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ISBN: 9780520276741 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0520276744 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xxi, 651 p. ; 26 cm
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-639) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: "An invention without a future" -- The avant-garde(s). The futurist cinema / F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, et al. -- Lenin decree / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- The ABCs of cinema / Blaise Cendrars -- WE: variant of a manifesto / Dziga Vertov -- The method of making workers' films / Sergei Eisenstein -- Constructivism in the cinema / Alexei Gan -- Preface: Un chien Andalou / Luis Buñuel -- Manifesto of the surrealists concerning L'age d'or / The Surrealist Group -- Manifesto on "Que viva Mexico" / The editors of Experimental film -- Spirit of truth / Le Corbusier -- An open letter to the film industry and to all who are interested in the evolution of the good film / László Moholy-Nagy -- Light*Form*Movement*Sound / Mary Ellen Bute -- Prolegomena for all future cinema / Guy Debord -- No more flat feet! / Lettriste International -- The Lettristes disavow the insulters of Chaplin / Jean-Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, and Gabriel Pomerand -- The only dynamic art / Jim Davis -- A statement of principles / Maya Deren -- The first statement of the New American Cinema Group / New American Cinema Group -- Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies / Ron Rice -- from Metaphors on vision / Stan Brakhage -- Kuchar 8mm film manifesto / George Kuchar -- Film andepandan [independents] manifesto / Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. -- Discontinuous films / Keewatin Dewdney -- Hand-made films manifesto / Ubu Films, Thoms -- Cinema manifesto / Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill -- For a metahistory of film: commonplace notes and hypotheses / Hollis Frampton -- Elements of the void / Gregory Markopoulos -- Small gauge manifesto / JoAnn Elam and Chuck Kleinhans -- Cinema of transgression manifesto / Nick Zedd -- Modern, all too modern / Keith Sanborn -- Open letter to the Experimental Film Congress: let's set the record straight / Peggy Ahwesh, Caroline Avery, et al. -- Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto / Jonas Mekas -- The decalogue / Jan Švankmajer -- Your film farm manifesto on process cinema / Philip Hoffman --