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A Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of
anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural
icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated.
Memories and diary entries, conversations and insights into his
work sit alongside collages of beautifully reproduced postcards,
newspaper cuttings, film negatives, lists, posters and photographs,
envelopes and letters, book covers, telegrams, cartoons and
doodles. Mekas has kept and archived the artifacts of his life as a
cultural touchstone down to the minutiae, all of which is brought
together here in the form of a unique and fascinating scrapbook of
a life lived with the highest artistic commitment. Guided by
Mekas's distinctive prose and suffused with warmth, A Dance with
Fred Astaire is rhapsodic, poetic and funny as all get out. A
revealing visual autobiography of a genuine culture hero.
In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured
the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking.
Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack
Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway
elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a
true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most
essential characteristics of these films into a unique conception
of American filmmaking's next phase. He simplified complex
aesthetic strategies for unfamiliar audiences and appreciated the
subversive genius of films that many dismissed as trash. This new
edition presents Mekas's original critiques in full, with
additional material on the filmmakers, film studies scholars, and
popular and avant-garde critics whom he inspired and transformed.
In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured
the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking.
Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack
Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway
elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a
true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most
essential characteristics of these films into a unique conception
of American filmmaking's next phase. He simplified complex
aesthetic strategies for unfamiliar audiences and appreciated the
subversive genius of films that many dismissed as trash. This new
edition presents Mekas's original critiques in full, with
additional material on the filmmakers, film studies scholars, and
popular and avant-garde critics whom he inspired and transformed.
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