Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology - Hardcover

Mackenzie, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520276744 ISBN 13: 9780520276741

Publisher: University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world.

This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.

About this title

Review:

"The most important film book of the year ... required reading for both students and lovers of cinema." CHOICE

About the Author:

Scott MacKenzie is Adjunct Professor of FiIm and Media Studies at Queen's University in Ontario. He is co-editor of The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (2013) and author of Screening Quebec: Quebecois Moving Images, National Identity and the Public Sphere (2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0520276744
• ISBN 13: 9780520276741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504