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On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film (October Books)
Annette Michelson
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Description for On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film (October Books)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Churner, Rachel. Series: October Books. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 color photos, 54 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AFKV; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 17. .
The first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others. The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years' worth ... Read more
The first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others. The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years' worth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
October Books
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262035507
SKU
V9780262035507
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About Annette Michelson
Annette Michelson (1922-2018) was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. A founding editor of the journal October, she wrote on art and cinema for more than five decades. Some of Michelson's essays on film were recently published in On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film (MIT Press).
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