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Self Defeating Language,
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This review is from: Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965 (Paperback)
This book is a compilation of essays. The author clearly has serious personal involvement with American avant-garde films as evidenced by his sections on finances, distribution and the internal politics of the film movement. These essays are straightforward reads. And he deliniates a number of interesting genre's (e.g., the portrait film). However his voice often veers off into turgid, post-modernist, academic prose. He really has something to say, but his language often obscures his content.
If the following quote seems meaningful to you then you will probably love the book. If you feel slightly stupefied and you want to stop reading then you are having my experience. "An inchoate poststructuralist recognition of the regime of language is discernible, in which the curtailment of verbal speech is merely the flip side of later deconstructionist or New Narrative suspicions of language-as-power." |
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Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965 by Paul Arthur (Paperback - January 15, 2005)
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