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The Cinema of Poetry (Paperback)
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Since the publication of his foundational work, Visionary Film, P.
Adams Sitney has been considered one of our most eloquent and
insightful interlocutors on the relationship between American film
and poetry. His latest study, The Cinema of Poetry, emphasizes the
vibrant world of European cinema in addition to incorporating the
author's long abiding concerns on American avant-garde cinema. The
work is divided into two principal parts, the first dealing with
poetry and a trio of films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman,
and Andrei Tarkovsky; the second part explores selected American
verse with American avant-garde films by Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs,
and others. Both parts are linked by Pier Paolo Pasolini's
theoretical 1965 essay "Il cinema di poesia" where the
writer/director describes the use of the literary device of "free
indirect discourse," which accentuates the subjective point-of view
as well as the illusion of functioning as if without a camera. In
other words, the camera is absent, and the experience of the
spectator is to plunge into the dreams and consciousness of the
characters and images presented in film. Amplifying and applying
the concepts advanced by Pasolini, Sitney offers extended readings
of works by T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Olson to
demonstrate how modernist verse strives for the "camera-less"
illusion achieved in a range of films that includes Fanny and
Alexander, Stalker, Lawrence Jordan's Magic, and several short
works by Joseph Cornell.
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