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Having already published collections of critical essays on fiction, poetry, performance, politics and visual art, Richard Kostelanetz for the first time selects here from his writings on film and video.As in earlier volumes, these essays emphasize the primacy of possibilities intrinsic in each medium. Always representing radical alternatives, he writes with uncommon perception not only about familiar issues but about films customarily forgotten, and always with his customary clarity. Also included are prefaces and transcripts from his own films and videos.He writes: Another implicit assumption behind my activity is acknowledging the importance of books in collecting together initially scattered opinions, for I have long contended that the critic who fails to risk publishing books is just a reviewing journalist, or, worse, an opportunist. Celebrating four decades of bookpublishing, he remains a prolific force and a unique independent voice.Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Bakers Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Readers Digest to TwentiethCentury Writers, The MerriamWebster Encyclopedia of Literature, Websters Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories.ContentsPreface ixPART I. FILM AND VIDEO CRITICISM1. The Artistry of Television Football (1969) 0012. Recent Experimental Film Reconsidered (1970) 0073. Orson Welles as an Acoustic Filmmaker (1989) 0214. Literary Videotapes (1989) 0305. Waiting for Revisionism (1991) 0356. Nam June Paik Remembrance (1992) 0387. The Institutionalization of Ignorance (1993) 0408. FastForwarding Through Classic Arts Showcase (2000) 0439. Responses to a Questionnaire (2000) 04610. Proposal for a Critical Book on Animated Music (2002) 047PART II. THEORY AND EXPERIMENTATION11. Literary Video (1976) 05112. Film (1977) 05413. Video Writing (1987) 05514. My Nonsync, TwoPerson Films (1989) 06015. Authenticity in Documentary (1991) 06716. LanguageBased Videotapes (1992) 07017. Remembering My Life in/of Words (2002) 074PART III. SCRIPTS18. Epiphanies (1993) 08119. Home Movies Reconsidered (1989) 08720. Six Versions of A Berlin Lost (1992) 100PART IV. NOTES OF A RELUCTANT FILMGOER21. (19591998) 125PART V. TRANIMATIONS: POETRY/FILM STORYBOARDS 22. (199) 203Acknowledgments 217Index 219Authors Illustration by Michael Peters 234About the Author 235
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