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Author Brown, Richard H., 1982- author

Title Through the looking glass : John Cage and avant-garde film / Richard H. Brown
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
Series The Oxford music/media series
Oxford music/media series.
Contents Cover; Series; Through the Looking Glass; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Audiovisu(ality)(ology); 1. The Spirit Inside Each Object: Oskar Fischinger, Sound Phonography, and the "Inner Eye"; 2. "Dreams That Money Can Buy": Trance, Myth, and Expression, 1941-​1948; 3. Losing the Ground: Chance, Transparency, and Cinematic Space, 1948-​1958; 4. "Cinema Delimina": Post-​Cagean Aesthetics, Medium Specificity, and Expanded Cinema; Conclusion: "Through the Looking Glass": Poetics and Chance in John Cage's One11; Notes; References; Index
Summary Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience on Cage's career. The examples chosen highlight moments of rupture within Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2019)
Subject Cage, John -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Cage, John fast
Subject Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Experimental films -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Experimental films
Music
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018021953
ISBN 9780190628093
019062809X
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