Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture (Film and Media Studies) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 21: Film and Media Studies

Elder, R. Bruce

 
9781554584697: Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture (Film and Media Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1554584698 ISBN 13: 9781554584697
Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?

In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context.

Elder examines how recent artists have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He proposes the daring thesis that in their efforts to do so, artists have resorted to gnostic models of consciousness. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning from any of those that currently dominate contemporary critical discussion. By reworking theories and speech in highly original ways, Elder formulates this new conception.

The works of Brakhage, Artaud, Schneeman, Cohen and others lie naked under Elder’s razor-sharp dissecting knife and he exposes the essence of their work, cutting deeply into the themes and theses from which the works are derived. His remarks on the gaps in contemporary critical practices will likely become the focus of much debate.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. Bruce Elder is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches media at Ryerson University. His book Harmony & Dissent (WLU Press, 2008) received the prestigious Robert Motherwell Book Prize and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Rudolf Kuenzli described DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (WLU Press, 2013) as "that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a very new light."

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Verlag
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
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1554584698
ISBN 13 
9781554584697
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