03023cam a2200421 i 4500 19178274 BJBSDDR 20260304165212.0 ta 160715s2017 maua b 001 0 eng 2016021257 9780262035507 (hardcover) 0262035502 (hardcover) 19178274 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc PN 1994 M623o 2017 791.43 Michelson, Annette, 1922-2018 43385 Essays. Selections On the eve of the future : selected writings on film / Annette Michelson. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2017. xxi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier October books Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-319) and index. The first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others. The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years' worth of those essays, focusing on her most relevant engagements with avant-garde production in experimental cinema, particularly with the movement known as American Independent Cinema. This volume includes the first critical essay on Marcel Duchamp's film Anemic Cinema, the first investigation into Joseph Cornell's filmic practices, and the first major explorations of Michael Snow. It offers an important essay on Maya Deren, whose work was central to that era of renewal and reinvention, seminal critiques of Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, and Harry Smith, and overviews of Independent Cinema. Gathered here for the first time, these texts demonstrate Michelson's pervasive influence as a writer and thinker and her role in the establishment of cinema studies as an academic field. The postwar generation of Independents worked to develop radically new terms, techniques, and strategies of production and distribution. Michelson shows that the fresh new forms they created from the legacy of Modernism became the basis of new forms of spectatorship and cinematic pleasure. Motion pictures. Cine 19 Art and motion pictures. Cine y arte 38067 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 124244 124244 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-07-16 0 PN 1994 M623o 2017 00000190484 2025-07-16 15:52:00 1 2025-07-16 BK