The melancholy lens : loss and mourning in American avant-garde cinema /
"The Melancholy Lens is a study of the films and videos of five major figures of The American Avant-Garde Cinema. Unlike other books on these artists, the approach here is to examine in detail the form, structure, and imagery of each work in terms of how these reflect, directly or indirectly, c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | "The Melancholy Lens is a study of the films and videos of five major figures of The American Avant-Garde Cinema. Unlike other books on these artists, the approach here is to examine in detail the form, structure, and imagery of each work in terms of how these reflect, directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously, aspects of each artist's personality. As both film scholar and psychoanalyst, the author is in a unique position to consider the work from this original perspective"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197551165 0197551165 9780197551172 0197551173 |