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University of California Press
- Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology
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- 2014
- Published by: University of California Press
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Film Manifestoes and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world.
This volume collects the major European "waves" and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.
This volume collects the major European "waves" and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xxii
- 1. The Avant-Garde(s)
- The Futurist Cinema (Italy, 1916)
- pp. 15-18
- Lenin Decree (USSR, 1919)
- pp. 19-20
- Spirit of Truth (France, 1933)
- pp. 41-43
- No More Flat Feet! (France, 1952)
- pp. 50-51
- The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953)
- pp. 52-56
- From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963)
- pp. 62-69
- Discontinuous Films (Canada, 1967)
- pp. 72-76
- Cinema Manifesto (Australia, 1971)
- pp. 77-78
- Elements of the Void (Greece, 1972)
- pp. 86-87
- Modern, All Too Modern (USA, 1988)
- pp. 89-100
- The Decalogue (Czech Republic, 1999)
- pp. 103-105
- 2. National and Transnational Cinemas
- pp. 107-111
- From “The Glass Eye” (Italy, 1933)
- pp. 112-116
- The Archers’ Manifesto (UK, 1942)
- pp. 116-117
- Buñuel the Poet (Mexico, 1951)
- pp. 120-123
- French Cinema Is Over (France, 1952)
- pp. 123-124
- Some Ideas on the Cinema (Italy, 1953)
- pp. 124-133
- Free Cinema Manifestos (UK, 1956–1959)
- pp. 149-152
- Sitges Manifesto (Spain, 1967)
- pp. 155-157
- How to Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967)
- pp. 157-160
- What Is to Be Done? (France, 1970)
- pp. 169-170
- The Winnipeg Manifesto (Canada, 1974)
- pp. 170-171
- Manifesto I (Denmark, 1984)
- pp. 173-174
- Manifesto III: I Confess! (Denmark, 1990)
- pp. 174-175
- The Cinema We Need (Canada, 1985)
- pp. 176-183
- In Praise of a Poor Cinema (Scotland, 1993)
- pp. 194-201
- I Sinema Manifesto (Indonesia, 1999)
- pp. 203-204
- The Aesthetics of Hunger (Brazil, 1965)
- pp. 218-220
- For an Imperfect Cinema (Cuba, 1969)
- pp. 220-230
- Consciousness of a Need (Uruguay, 1970)
- pp. 253-256
- The Luz e Ação Manifesto (Brazil, 1973)
- pp. 284-285
- FeCAViP Manifesto (France, 1990)
- pp. 312-313
- Pocha Manifesto #1 (USA, 1994)
- pp. 316-318
- Poor Cinema Manifesto (Cuba, 2004)
- pp. 318-319
- Hands Off Love (France, 1927)
- pp. 330-336
- Statement (USA, 1969)
- p. 346
- Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema (UK, 1973)
- pp. 347-356
- Womanifesto (USA, 1975)
- p. 359
- Cinema with Tits (Spain, 1998)
- pp. 388-390
- My Porn Manifesto (France, 2002)
- pp. 390-392
- Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto (UK, 2009)
- pp. 396-397
- Dirty Diaries Manifesto (Sweden, 2009)
- pp. 397-400
- 5. Militating Hollywood
- pp. 401-404
- Statement of Principles (USA, 1944)
- pp. 420-421
- Screen Guide for Americans (USA, 1947)
- pp. 422-432
- Full Frontal Manifesto (USA, 2001)
- pp. 441-442
- 6. The Creative Treatment of Actuality
- pp. 443-447
- Towards a Social Cinema (France, 1930)
- pp. 448-452
- Manifesto on the Documentary Film (UK, 1933)
- pp. 460-461
- Defocus Manifesto (Denmark, 2000)
- pp. 472-473
- Reality Cinema Manifesto (Russia, 2005)
- pp. 478-479
- Documentary Manifesto (USA, 2008)
- pp. 479-480
- Creative Film (Germany, 1935)
- pp. 493-495
- The Film Prayer (USA, c. 1920)
- pp. 523-524
- The Film Society (UK, 1925)
- pp. 524-525
- Filmliga Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1927)
- pp. 525-526
- Statement of Purposes (USA, 1948)
- pp. 527-528
- The Importance of Film Archives (UK, 1948)
- pp. 529-532
- Film Festival Form: A Manifesto (UK, 2012)
- pp. 559-562
- 9. SOUNDS AND SILENCE
- pp. 563-565
- A Statement on Sound (USSR, 1928)
- pp. 566-567
- A Rejection of the Talkies (USA, 1931)
- pp. 568-569
- A Dialogue on Sound: A Manifesto (UK, 1934)
- pp. 570-572
- 10. The Digital Revolution
- pp. 573-575
- The Pluginmanifesto (UK, 2001)
- pp. 586-588
- 11. Aesthetics and the Futures of Cinema
- pp. 591-594
- The Birth of the Sixth Art (France, 1911)
- pp. 595-603
- From Preface to Film (UK, 1954)
- pp. 607-613
- The Snakeskin (Sweden, 1965)
- pp. 614-616
- Manifesto (Italy, 1965)
- pp. 616-617
- Direct Action Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1985)
- pp. 618-619
- Remodernist Film Manifesto (USA, 2008)
- pp. 619-622
- Appendix. What Is a “Manifesto Film”?
- pp. 625-628
- Acknowledgments of Permissions
- pp. 635-640
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520957411
Related ISBN(s)
9780520276741
MARC Record
OCLC
894795921
Pages
504
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-08
Language
English
Open Access
No