Synopses & Reviews
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Ex-Cinema offers lucid and mesmerizing readings of a broad spectrum of avant-garde films and videos, ranging from Derek Jarmanand#8217;s Blue to Martin Arnoldand#8217;s and Matthias Mand#252;llerand#8217;s very different found footage works, from Maya Deren to structural film, and from Su Friedrichand#8217;s performative autobiographies to Diane Thaterand#8217;s zoo videos. Lippitand#8217;s passion for addressing the philosophical implications of experimental film and video is as astounding as it is laudable.and#8221; and#151;Roy Grundmann, author of
Andy Warholand#8217;s Blow Joband#147;In this collection of brilliant essays on avant-garde film and video, Akira Lippit manifests a precise intelligence and a critical acumen that stretch our understanding of cinema. Invoking the concept of and#145;Ex-Cinema,and#8217; he produces an intricate chain of questions that challenge conventional notions of interiority and exteriority, medium specificity, and narratives of the self. Lippitand#8217;s writing resonates with the affective impact of the works he discussesand#151;from Derek Jarmanand#8217;s Blue to Jacques Derridaand#8217;s work on blindness and the spectral. This is a dazzling tour through a series of provocative and groundbreaking works.and#8221; and#151;Mary Ann Doane, author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Synopsis
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept and#147;ex-and#8221;and#151;meaning from, outside, and no longerand#151;Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.
Synopsis
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Ex-Cinema offers lucid and mesmerizing readings of a broad spectrum of avant-garde films and videos, ranging from Derek Jarman's Blue to Martin Arnold's and Matthias Müller's very different found footage works, from Maya Deren to structural film, and from Su Friedrich's performative autobiographies to Diane Thater's zoo videos. Lippit's passion for addressing the philosophical implications of experimental film and video is as astounding as it is laudable." --Roy Grundmann, author of
Andy Warhol's Blow JobAbout the Author
Akira Mizuta Lippit is Professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He is on the board of Film Quarterly, and is author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
EXC00 Exergue Ex-cinema
EXC01 Out of the Blue (ex nihilo)
EXC02 Extimacy: Outside Time and Super-realist Cinema
EXC03 Cinemnesis: Martin Arnoldand#8217;s Memory Apparatus
EXC04 The Rhetoric of Images, of the Unimaginable
EXC05 Derrida, Specters, Self-reflection
EXC06 (Parenthesis: Video Ergo Sum)
EXC07 Digesture: Gestures Without Bodies
EXC08 Extract Matthias Mand#252;ller
EXC09 Revisionary Cinema
EXC10 xxxxMA