Optic Antics

The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-538498-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 251 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists and critics, all of which testify to the extraordinary variety and influence of his accomplishments. Anyone interested in cinema or experimental arts will be well-rewarded by a greater acquaintance with the genius, the innovation, and the optical antics of Ken Jacobs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pierson, Michele

James, David E.

Arthur, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Michele Pierson: Introduction: Ken Jacobs-A Half-Century of Cinema

- 2: Paul Arthur: "A Panorama Compounded of Great Human Suffering and Ecstatic Filmic Representation": Texts On Ken Jacobs

- 3: Jonas Mekas: Texts On Ken Jacobs

- 4: Branden Joseph: A Mischievous Little-Boy Revolution: The Whirled

- 5: Richard Foreman: Ken Jacobs, Moralist

- 6: David E. James: The Sky Socialist: Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption

- 7: Larry Gottheim: Bigger Than Life: Between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray

- 8: Eivind Røssaak: Acts of Delay: The Play between Stillness and Motion in Tom, Tom the Piper's Son

- 9: Abigail Child: The Piper's Son: Content and Performance in the Films of Ken Jacobs

- 10: Tony Pipolo: Ken Jacobs' Two Wrenching Departures

- 11: Flo Jacobs: Photo Essay

- 12: Amy Taubin: Flo Talks

- 13: Nicole Brenez: Recycling, Visual Study, Expanded Theory - Ken Jacobs, Theorist, or: The Long Song of the Sons

- 14: Art Spiegelman: "Avant-Garde" Filmmaker: Ken Jacobs

- 15: Scott MacDonald: Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty Seminar

- 16: Phil Solomon: Nervous Ken: XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and after

- 17: Michele Pierson: Jacobs' Bergsonism

- 18: Lewis Klahr: Ken Jacobs and Ecstatic Abstraction

- 19: Adrian Martin: Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs: A Precarious, Extravagant, Populist, and Constructivist Cinema

- 20: Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller: Untitled (for Ken)

- 21: Federico Windhausen: Theories of Moving Pictures: Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann

- 22: Fred Worden: I Owe Ken Jacobs

- 23: Michael Zryd: Professor Ken

- 24: William Rose: Annotated Filmography and Performance History

- 25: Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Pierson is on the faculty of the Film Studies Department at King's College London. She is the author of Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder.

David E. James is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties and The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.

Paul Arthur was Professor of English and Film Studies at Montclair State University. He is the author of Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965.