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Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990

Jerry White
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American avant garde
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contemporary film directors
conversations with filmmakers
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European cinema
experimental film
film directors interviews
film festivals
Film Studies
small magazines
Soviet filmmakers
Stan Brakahge
world cinema

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  • ISBN 9781771123037
  • Weight: 1040g
  • Dimensions: 248 x 208mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Apr 2018
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema. For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly publishing reports from the Telluride Film Festival. These reports show that Brakhage was keenly interested in world cinema, anxious to meet and dialogue with filmmakers of many different stripes.

The book also contains substantial discussion of Brakhage's work in light of the filmmakers he encountered at Telluride and discussed in Rolling Stock. Long chapters are given over to Soviet filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, and Sergei Parajanov, as well as the German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. Brakhage was a keen viewer of these filmmakers and their contemporaries, both at Telluride and in his role as teacher at the University of Colorado, and Stan Brakhage and Rolling Stock attempts to place his work alongside theirs and thus reclaim him for world cinema.

The book's appendices reprint letters Brakhage wrote to Stella Pence (Telluride's co-founder and managing director), as well as summaries of his work for Telluride and a brace of difficult-to-find reviews.
About Jerry White
Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of numerous books on film, including Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (WLU Press, 2013).

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