| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Ken Jacobs-a half-century of cinema / Michele Pierson -- "A panaroma compounded of great human suffering and ecstatic filmic representation" : texts on Ken Jacobs / Paul Arthur -- Texts on Ken Jacobs / Jonas Mekas -- A mischievous little-boy revolution : The whirled / Branden W. Joseph -- Ken Jacobs, moralist / Richard Foreman -- The sky socialist : film as an instrument of thought, cinema as an augury of redemption / David E. James -- Bigger than life : between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray / Larry Gottheim -- Acts of delay : the play between stillness and motion in Tom, Tom, The piper's son / Eivind Røssaak -- The piper's son : content and performance in the films of Ken Jacobs / Abigail Child -- Ken Jacobs' Two wrenching departures / Tony Pipolo -- Some Jacobs family photos / Flo Jacobs -- Flo talks! / Amy Taubin -- Recycling, visual study, expanded theory : Ken Jacobs, theorist, or the long song of the sons / Nicole Brenez -- Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty seminar / Scott MacDonald -- Nervous Ken XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and after / Phil Solomon -- Jacob's Bergsonism / Michele Pierson -- Ken Jacobs and ecstatic abstraction / Lewis Klahr -- Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs : a precarious, extravagant, populist, and constructivist cinema / Adrian Martin -- Untitled (for Ken) / Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller -- Theories of moving pictures : Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann / Federico Windhausen -- I owe Ken Jacobs / Fred Worden -- Professor Ken / Michael Zryd -- "Avant-garde" filmmaker : Ken Jacobs / Art Spiegelman -- Annotated filmography and performance history / William Rose |
| Summary |
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jacobs, Ken, 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Jacobs, Ken, 1933- fast |
| Subject |
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pierson, Michele.
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James, David E., 1945-
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Arthur, Paul, 1947-2008.
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| LC no. |
2010027312 |
| ISBN |
9780199739561 |
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0199739560 |
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0195384970 |
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9780195384970 |
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