VES 177e - Critical Cinema: The Poetics of the Moving Image--Avant Garde Film and Its Influences

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Harvard University

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Description:

This course considers the emergence of American avant-garde film from the influences of European avant-garde filmmaking and literary modernists (like Pound, Stein, Beckett, Olson and Creeley). We will look at the aesthetics of avant-garde film as an alternative to mainstream film and to narrative film, focusing on aesthetics and philosophies that influenced the films and theories of filmmakers like Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Hollis Frampton, Maya Deren and Marie Menken.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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