Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essay celebrating British avant-garde cinema's rich history draws together writings by filmmakers, theorists, critics, and curators. These individuals have been engaged over the past 70 years with film not only as a form of art practice but also as a subversive means of representing British society itself and as a personal expression of issues of memory, sexuality, and ethnicity. Included are essays from a wide range of distinguished writers--from Virginia Woolf, Lindsay Anderson, and peter Gidal to Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and Malcolm Le Grice.
Synopsis
This volume is a unique event, being the first collection of essays to celebrate British avant-garde cinema's rich and exciting history which reaches back to the 1920s and is as vibrant and alive today as it ever was. It draws together writings by film-makers. theorists, critics and curators who over the past seventy years have been engaged with film not only as a form of atr practice, but also as a subversive means of representing British society itself, and as a personal expression of issues of memory, sexuality and ethnicity.
Synopsis
This collection of essays celebrating British avant-garde cinema's rich history draws together writings by filmmakers, theorists, critics, and curators.
About the Author
Michael O'Pray is a reader in visual theories at the University of East London.