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First Reformed (Paperback)
Paul Schrader; Introduction by Masha Tupitsyn
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If the sound bite is the new order, then how do we make every word
count? In today's surplus world of communication overload and
cultural clutter, writer and cultural critic Masha Tupitsyn turns
to the media matrix of Twitter to explore the changing ways that we
construct and consume narrative. Loosely applying the discerning
aphorism-a compressed genre in itself-to a 21st century context,
LACONIA: 1,200 TWEETS ON FILM offers meditations on film and
popular culture that resonant with laconic meaning and personal
insight while getting to the heart of the matter. Inspired by Chris
Marker's free-associative film impressions in La Jet ee and Sans
Soleil, LACONIA is part film diary, part cultural inventory, and
part mashup. Pulling from an array of film, popular culture, books,
and mainstream news, it offers penetrating critical commentary on
an increasingly muddled virtual world. LACONIA consists of brick by
brick prose, as Tupitsyn thinks in sentences and lines that
culminate in an architecture of thinking.
A collection of stories told through the movies that revisits the
lower Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in
the 1980s. Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut
collection of stories told through the movies. Equally influenced
by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits the ruins of a
childhood and youth nurtured on the fringe of the glittering lower
Manhattan art world and the Atlantic haven of Provincetown in the
1980s. Moving fluidly through space, time, and a range of cinematic
frameworks, Tupitsyn cuts through the cynical glamour and illusion
of Hollywood to a soft, secret heart.Her narrator, a female loner
and traveler, is caught in the maelstrom of films and images, where
life is experienced through the eye of a camera lens and seen
through the light on the screen. In a precise and elegant style,
Beauty Talk & Monsters embraces and confronts a lineage of
familiar myths and on- and off-screen cinematic excess in order to
challenge the silver screen's century of power over our dreams and
ideals. Intimate and intellectual, Tupitsyn's stories play with the
cinema's most popular icons and images.
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Picture Cycle (Paperback)
Masha Tupitsyn, Kevin Killian
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A multigenre investigation of the personal and cultural annals of
memory, identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen. In
exchange for studying what each fraudulent cell looks like under a
merciless commercial and commodified lens, viewers enable
late-capitalism to run more smoothly by calling in with their
votes, as is the case with Reality TV. From the inside, secrecy
appears eradicated, as though secrets or coded transparencies
comprise the totality of injustice, rather than just one part.
Justice is reduced to a vantage point. We see and we see and we see
ad infinitum. -from Picture Cycle With her debut collection Beauty
Talk & Monsters (2007), Masha Tupitsyn established a new genre
of hybrid writing that melded film criticism, philosophy, and
autobiography. Picture Cycle continues Tupitsyn's multigenre
investigation of the personal and cultural annals of memory,
identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen. Composed
over a ten-year period, Picture Cycle is a pioneering collection
whose sharp and knowing vignette-like essays form a critical
autobiography of the daily images in our lives. Deftly covering a
range of theoretical and cinematic frameworks, Tupitsyn traces here
the quickly vanishing line between onscreen and offscreen,
predigital and postdigital. The result is a unique intellectual
study of the uncanny formation of our life's biographies through
images.
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