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: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197551196 019755119X 9780197551202 0197551203 9780197551189 0197551181 |