Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas: towards a poetics of the amateur
This article will analyze the question of the amateur within the context of North-American avant-garde cinema, and the way in which the theoretical work of directors Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas has contributed for the elaboration of a poetics of this term. The analysis of this theme wi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Intexto (Porto Alegre) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/92952 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/92952 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cinema de Vanguarda Norte-americano. Amateur. Stan Brakhage. Maya Deren. Jonas Mekas. American Avant-garde Cinema. Amateur. Stan Brakhage. Maya Deren. Jonas Mekas. |
| Sumario: | This article will analyze the question of the amateur within the context of North-American avant-garde cinema, and the way in which the theoretical work of directors Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas has contributed for the elaboration of a poetics of this term. The analysis of this theme will be grounded on the following texts: Amateur Versus Professional (Deren, 1959), In Defense of Amateur (Brakhage, 1971), and The Changing Language of Cinema (Mekas, 1962). Our study will focus on the following aspects: socioeconomic, artistic, and technical. The article defends the position that these texts have a historical and theoretical importance on the term and contribute to understand its poetics. |
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