Meshes of the Afternoon

by Rhodes, John David

• ISBN13: 9781844573776
• ISBN10: 184457377X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

John David Rhodes' illuminating study of Maya Deren's mesmerising short 'Meshes of the Afternoon' (1943) places the film in the context of European modernism and as a pivotal text for the pre- and post-War history of the cinematic avant garde. Rhodes also explores the film's use of point of view, repetition and visual symobolism.

Author Biography

JOHN DAVID RHODES is Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex.  He is the author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and the co-editor, with Brian Price, of On Michael Haneke (Wayne State University Press, 2010) and, with Elena Gorfinkel, of The Place of the Moving Image (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).

Table of Contents

i) Acknowledgements
I. Introduction
II. From Derenkowsky to Deren, from Eleonora to Maya
III. Modernisms, high and low
IV. 'Shadow of girl arrives': Meshes: sense and interpretation
V. Hollywood, 1943
VI. DIY and the promise of impurity
Credits
Bibliography