Absence in cinema : the art of showing nothing /

"Absence has played a crucial role in the history of avant-garde aesthetics, from the blank canvases of Robert Rauschenberg to Yves Klein's invisible paintings, from the "silent" music of John Cage to Samuel Beckett's minimalist theater. Yet little attention has been given t...

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Autore principale: Remes, Justin (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Columbia University Press [2020]
Serie:Film and culture.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/reme18930
Sommario:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: Voids
  • 1. WALTER RUTTMANN AND THE BLIND FILM
  • 2. STAN BRAKHAGE AND THE BIRTH OF SILENCE
  • 3. NAOMI UMAN AND THE PEEKABOO PRINCIPLE
  • 4. MARTIN ARNOLD'S DISAPPEARING ACT
  • CONCLUSION: Nothing Is Important
  • FILMOGRAPHY
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • FILM AND CULTURE