Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Brakhage, Stan.

Description

1. xi, 369 pages : illustrations; 22 x 25 cm.

Summary

1. "Filmmaker Stan Brakhage has long been known as a giant of experimental cinema, but this collection shows him in a completely new light--as a writer. Throughout the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly with reports from the Telluride Film Festival. These reports show that Brakhage was keenly interested in world cinema and was eager to meet and exchange views with filmmakers of different stripes."--
2. "The book also contains substantial discussion of Brakhage's work in light of the filmmakers he encountered at Telluride and discussed in Rolling Stock. Long chapters are given over to Soviet filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, and Sergei Parajanov, as well as the German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. Brakhage was a keen viewer of these filmmakers and their contemporaries, both at Telluride and in his role as teacher at the University of Colorado, and Stan Brakhage and Rolling Stock attempts to place his work alongside theirs and thus reclaim him for world cinema."--

Series statement

1. Film and media studies series

Uniform title

1. Rolling stock.
2. Film + media studies.

Subject

1. Brakhage, Stan
2. Brakhage, Stan
3. Motion pictures > History
4. Motion pictures

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. 1. A conservative avant-garde: Brakhage, Tarkovsky, and Syberberg -- Stan Brakhage Texts -- Brakhage Text 1: closely watched blurs -- Brakhage Text 2: Brakhage at the ninth Telluride -- Brakhage Text 3: Telluride gold. Brakage meets Tarkovsky -- Brakhage Text 3.1: short takes on Telluride, "straight" European vs New American -- Critical interlude: notes on the films Brakhage showed to Tarkovsky, 1983 -- Stan Brakhage Texts -- Brakhage Text 4: Telluride zinc -- Brakhage Text 4.1: Mailer madness, torn macho -- Brakhage Text 4.2: Losey and Leigh -- Brakhage Text 5: Telluride takes, Brakhage talks -- Brakhage Text 6: Brakhage observes, Telluride the 13th -- Brakhage Text 7: The gold, the bad, & the usual, Stan Brakhage reviews the 15th Telluride Film Festical 2. A certain kind of Soviet: Brakhage, Parajanov, and Shepitko.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-360) and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.