A01=Abigail Child
Author_Abigail Child
avant-garde filmmaking
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Cinema 16
cinematic narratives
Eisenstein montage
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experimental cinema theory
film as poetic language
film poetics and theory
film studies
gender
gender focused film
intersection of poetry and film
media studies
montage techniques
multimedia criticism
poetic structure in filmmaking
political commentary
sexuality
social critique
sound-image
visual collage
voyeurism
Product details
- ISBN 9780817351601
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 161 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2005
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources, ranging from industrial films and documentaries to home movies, vacation photography, and snippets of old B movies. The resulting collages and montages are cinematic narratives that have been consistently praised for their beauty and sense of wonder and delight in the purely visual. At the same time, Child's films are noted for their incisive political commentary on issues such as gender and sexuality, class, voyeurism, poverty, and the subversive nature of propaganda. In the essays of This Is Called Moving, Child draws on her long career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work. For Child, poetry and film are both potent means of representation, and by examining the parallels between them - words and frames, lines and shots, stanzas and scenes - she discovers how the two art forms re-construct and re-present social meaning, both private and collective.
Abigail Child is Professor of Film and Animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and author of A Motive for Mayhem and Artificial Memory. Tom Gunning is Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph.
