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9780520227323

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520227323

  • ISBN10:

    0520227328

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

The first significant collection of essays about Maya Deren (1917-60), probably the leading figure in the post World War II American avant garde; in fact, this is one of the first serious considerations of any kind of Deren's career.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 3(18)
Bill Nichols
The Historical Lens
In the Eyes of her Contemporaries
The Terms of her Legend and Legacy
A DEREN'S WORK AND THE ARTS
Poetics and Savage Thought
21(26)
Annette Michelson
The Modernist Poetics of Maya Deren
47(30)
Renata Jackson
The Ethics of Form
77(28)
Maureen Turim
Maya Deren Herself
105(26)
Catherine M. Soussloff
B DEREN'S WRITINGS AND FILM THEORY
Aesthetic Agencies in Flux
131(20)
Mark Franko
Moving the Dancers' Souls
151(28)
Ute Holl
Maya Deren
179(6)
Jane Brakhage Wodening
C DREN'S FILMS AND THEIR FORM
``The Eye for Magic''
185(22)
Lucy Fischer
Maya Deren's Ethnographic Representation of Ritual and Myth in Haiti
207(30)
Moira Sullivan
Seeing Double(s)
237(24)
Maria Pramaggiore
Maya Deren and Me
261(6)
Barbara Hammer
Appendix: An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film 267(56)
Maya Deren
List of Contributors 323(4)
Index 327

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