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OverviewMaya Deren (1917--1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic movements and films.Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work and her numerous unfinished projects, arguing Deren's overarching aesthetic is founded on principles of incompletion, contingency, and openness. Combining the contrasting approaches of documentary, experimental, and creative film, Deren created a wholly original experience for film audiences that disrupted the subjectivity of cinema, its standards of continuity, and its dubious facility with promoting categories of realism. This critical retrospective reflects on the development of Deren's career and the productive tensions she initiated that continue to energize film. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah KellerPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9781322526782ISBN 10: 1322526788 Publication Date: 01 January 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsMaya Deren: Incomplete Control is a tour-de-force of historical and critical scholarship that explores new primary research material from Maya Deren's voluminous and complex archive in order to assert the significance of incompletion and process as central to Deren's artistic and intellectual production. Keller's clear, erudite prose offers brilliant new readings of Deren's extant films, including canonical works like Meshes of the Afternoon, and comprehensively explores Deren's incomplete projects -- films, research projects, writings -- to draw out Deren's radical imaginings of art and culture.--Michael Zryd, York University Author InformationSarah Keller is assistant professor of English and cinema studies at Colby College. She is coeditor, with Jason Paul, of Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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