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LEADER: 01934cam 2200253 a 4500
001 2002071938
003 DLC
005 20050308183233.0
008 020529s2002 nyu bq 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002071938
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPN1998.3.D47$bJ33 2002
082 00 $a791.43/0233/092$221
100 1 $aJackson, Renata.
245 14 $aThe modernist poetics and experimental film practice of Maya Deren, (1917-1961) /$cRenata Jackson.
260 $aLewiston :$bEdwin Mellen Press,$cc2002.
300 $a237 p. :$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in history and criticism of film ;$vv. 5
504 $aFilmography (p. 215-216).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: Voices of Maya Deren in Theme and Variation -- Chapters -- I. A Thematic Biography -- Heritage, Education, and Political Activism -- Writing as Political and Creative Expression -- Deren and Dunham -- New Vocations, New Causes -- II. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Anagram -- The Structure of Anagram -- Socio-historical Commentary and Moral Tenets -- A Modernist Aesthetics -- Filmmaker/Theorist as Art Critic -- III. Deren's Modernist Film Poetics -- The Nature of the Medium -- Filmmaker/Theorist as Film Critic -- A Poetics of Film -- IV. Deren's Ritualist Aesthetics -- Deren on Ritual Forms -- The "Visual Fugue" Project: A Cross-Cultural Counterpoint -- Deren in Haiti: The "Visual Fugue" Project Reconsidered -- Deren as Ethnographer -- The Haitian Footage -- V. Theory into Practice -- Film as a Time-Form -- Choreographies for Camera -- Inverted Odysseys -- Authorial Intent, Intuitive Reception, and Moral Responsibility -- Coda: Stretto Variations -- Appendix: Maya Deren Filmography.
600 10 $aDeren, Maya$xCriticism and interpretation.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002071938.html