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    Cinema by Other Means

    Cinema by Other Means by Levi, Pavle;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 31 May 2012

    • ISBN 9780199841400
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages224 pages
    • Size 147x208x22 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 65 illus.
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    Short description:

    Cinema by Other Means recounts the history of para-cinema--the long tradition within the avant garde of adapting and avoiding the tools, materials, technologies, and techniques of conventional film-making. Levi's study considers groundbreaking works by filmmakers, artists, and theorists from France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.

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    Cinema by Other Means explores an extraordinary history, stretching from the 1910s to the present: it is a study of various avant-garde endeavors to practice the cinema by using the tools, the materials, the technology, and the techniques, which either modify or are entirely different from those associated with the standard film apparatus. Using examples from both the historical and the post-war avant-garde--Dada, Surrealism, Letterism, "structural-materialist" film, and more--the book tells the tale of the multiple conditions of cinema; of a range of peculiar and imaginative ways in which filmmakers, artists, and writers have pondered and created, performed and transformed, the "movies"--with or without directly grounding their work in the materials of film.

    Throughout, Levi considers works by filmmakers, artists, and theorists from all over Europe--France, Italy, Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary--with a special emphasis on the Yugoslav avant-garde. This is the first study to offer the English-language reader a thorough explication of an assortment of distinctly Yugoslav artistic phenomena, such as the Zenithist cine-writings of the 1920s, the proto-structural Antifilm movement of the early 1960s, and the "ortho-dialectical" film-poetry of the 1970s.

    In 1968, while exhibiting American avant-garde films in Europe, I discovered that the Yugoslavian experimental cinema was at once the most sophisticated and least known in Europe. At long last, it has found its exponent and brilliant exegete in Pavle Levi. Cinema by Other Means is an invaluable contribution to film history.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preamble
    1. Film, Or the Vibrancy of Matter
    2. On Re-materialization of the Cinematographic Apparatus
    3. Written Films
    4. Notes Around General Cinefication
    5. Whither the Imaginary Signifier?
    6. The 'Between' of Cinema
    Index

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