| Description |
1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
BFI film classics |
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BFI film classics.
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| Contents |
Prologue: 'Hollywood 1943' -- An exile -- A young socialist -- Modernist commitments -- With Dunham -- Exile in Hollywood -- Couples and doubles -- Shadow of a girl appears -- The general audience and the particular film-maker -- Reflections and shadows -- Particularly universal |
| Summary |
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is the most important film in the history of American avant-garde cinema and one of the most significant and influential films in the whole of film history. It was made by Maya Deren and her then husband Alexander Hammid in their bungalow above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for a mere $274.90. The artistic collaboration between Deren and Hammid -- which was by all accounts harmonious -- finds its distorted and unhappy reflection in the vision of the tormented female protagonist in Meshes of the Afternoon. The film's focus -- through a series of intricate and interlocking dream sequences -- on female experience and the domestic sphere link it to the Hollywood melodramas of the period, while its unsettling atmosphere of dread, death and doubles makes it a counter-cinematic cousin to film noir. The film has made its influence felt not only on the entire subsequent history of experimental film and video production, but also on the work of Hollywood auteurs. It is a touchstone of women's film-making, of modernist cinema and of modern art |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed April 06, 2016) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-126) |
| Notes |
In English |
| SUBJECT |
Meshes of the afternoon (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011157087
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Meshes of the afternoon (Motion picture) fast (OCoLC)fst01787139 |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- History and criticism
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Humanities.
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Film & Video/Reference.
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Film & Video/General.
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Experimental films.
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Performing Arts.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781844575701 |
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1844575705 |
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9781838719708 |
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1838719709 |
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1838719717 |
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9781838719715 |
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