Includes bibliographical references and index. "Chronology of films": p. 401-408.
Contents:
Introduction: Emersonian poetics -- Marie Menken and the somatic camera -- Ian Hugo and superimposition -- Stan Brakhage's autobiography as a cinematic sequence -- Jonas Mekas and the diary film -- Hollis Frampton and the specter of narrative -- Robert Beavers's Winged distance/sightless measure: the cycle of the ephebe -- Beavers's second cycle: the past in the present - the present in the past -- Andrew Noren and the open-ended cinematic sequence -- Ernie Gehr and the axis of primary thought -- Warren Sonbert's movements in a concerto -- Brakhage and the tales of the tribes -- Frampton's Magellan -- Abigail Child: textual self-reliance -- Su Friedrich: "Giving birth to myself" -- Brakhage: meditative cinema -- Beavers's third cycle: the theater of gesture -- Mekas's retrospection -- Conclusion: Perfect exhilaration -- Appendix: Chronology of films.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.