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Edwin Mellen Press
Language
English
Pages
237

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2002, Edwin Mellen Press
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Table of Contents

Machine 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.

Edition Notes

Filmography (p. 215-216).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.

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Lewiston
Series
Studies in history and criticism of film ;, v. 5

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/0233/092
Library of Congress
PN1998.3.D47 J33 2002

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Pagination
237 p. :
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

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OL3569646M
ISBN 10
0773471472
LCCN
2002071938
Library Thing
9157568
Goodreads
591307

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