by Pierson, Michele; James, David E; Arthur, Paul
Book / 2011

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TitleOptic antics : the amazing cinema of Ken Jacobs
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Pierson, Michele
  • James, David E
  • Arthur, Paul
ImprintNew York Oxford University Press, 2011
ISBN
  • 9780195384970
  • 0195384970
  • 9780195384987
  • 0195384989
LanguageEnglish
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Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Introduction : Ken Jacobs-a half-century of cinema / Michele Pierson -- "A panaroma compounded of great human suffering and ecstatic filmic representation" : texts on Ken Jacobs / Paul Arthur -- Texts on Ken Jacobs / Jonas Mekas -- A mischievous little-boy revolution : The whirled / Branden W. Joseph -- Ken Jacobs, moralist / Richard Foreman -- The sky socialist : film as an instrument of thought, cinema as an augury of redemption / David E. James -- Bigger than life : between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray / Larry Gottheim -- Acts of delay : the play between stillness and motion in Tom, Tom, The piper's son / Eivind Røssaak -- The piper's son : content and performance in the films of Ken Jacobs / Abigail Child -- Ken Jacobs' Two wrenching departures / Tony Pipolo -- Some Jacobs family photos / Flo Jacobs -- Flo talks! / Amy Taubin -- Recycling, visual study, expanded theory : Ken Jacobs, theorist, or the long song of the sons / Nicole Brenez -- Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty seminar / Scott MacDonald -- Nervous Ken XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and after / Phil Solomon -- Jacob's Bergsonism / Michele Pierson -- Ken Jacobs and ecstatic abstraction / Lewis Klahr -- Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs : a precarious, extravagant, populist, and constructivist cinema / Adrian Martin -- Untitled (for Ken) / Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller -- Theories of moving pictures : Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann / Federico Windhausen -- I owe Ken Jacobs / Fred Worden -- Professor Ken / Michael Zryd -- "Avant-garde" filmmaker : Ken Jacobs / Art Spiegelman -- Annotated filmography and performance history / William Rose.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionviii, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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2011
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Pierson, MicheleJames, David EArthur, Paul
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Oxford University Press
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