1950s
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american filmmakers
art
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avant-garde movements
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cinema
conceptual artists
dadaists
discrepant editing
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eroticism
film history
filming techniques
fine arts
france
francois dufrene
french literary criticism
genre films
gil j wolman
image
isidore isou
lettrism
maurice lemaitre
painting
poetry
postwar paris
situationism
sounds
stan brakhage
surrealists
video
Product details
- ISBN 9780226174457
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 18 x 26mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier works of the Dadaists and Surrealists and the later Conceptual artists. Off-Screen Cinema is the first monograph in English on the Lettrists. Offering a full portrait of the avant-garde scene of 1950s Paris, it focuses on the film works of key Lettrist figures like Gil J Wolman, Maurice Lemaitre, Francois Dufrene, and especially the movement's founder, Isidore Isou, a Romanian immigrant whose "discrepant editing" deliberately uncoupled image and sound. Through Cabanas' history, we see not only the full scope of the Lettrist project, but also its clear influence on Situationism, the French New Wave, and the New Realists, as well as American filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage.
Kaira M. Cabanas is an art historian and visiting professor in the Departamento de Letras at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the author of The Myth of Nouveau Realisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France.
