Maya Deren

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16221-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 387 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Maya Deren (1917;1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic movements and films.

Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work and her numerous unfinished projects, arguing Deren's overarching aesthetic is founded on principles of incompletion, contingency, and openness. Combining the contrasting approaches of documentary, experimental, and creative film, Deren created a wholly original experience for film audiences that disrupted the subjectivity of cinema, its standards of continuity, and its dubious facility with promoting categories of realism. This critical retrospective reflects on the development of Deren's career and the productive tensions she initiated that continue to energize film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keller, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Unfinished Business1. Done and Undone: Meshes of the Afternoon and Witch's Cradle2. Toward Completion and Control: At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera, and Ritual in Transfigured Time3. Haiti4. Full CircleConclusion: In Completing a ThoughtNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Keller is assistant professor of Art and cinema studies at the University of Massachusetts;Boston. She is coeditor, with Jason Paul, of Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations.