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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Serious attention to a serious artist
Amazingly, this is the first major collection of critical essays on Deren's work in years. It is not easy-going. I would never assign it in an intro class or for an overview. Watch Martina Kudlacek's brilliant and engaging documentary "The Mirror of Maya Deren" from 2003 (get it on netflix) for a great simple overview of her career. Then look at the first...
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2 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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SKip the book see the films
Unless you really need to impress a hippie boomer professor with Avant-Garde verbal overkill I would urge you to just take Deren's films at face value and make your own, rather than wading through her dreary overwrought prose.
Published on February 18, 2008 by Pumukau
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Serious attention to a serious artist,
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This review is from: Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde: Includes the complete text of An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and Film (Paperback)
Amazingly, this is the first major collection of critical essays on Deren's work in years. It is not easy-going. I would never assign it in an intro class or for an overview.
Watch Martina Kudlacek's brilliant and engaging documentary "The Mirror of Maya Deren" from 2003 (get it on netflix) for a great simple overview of her career. Then look at the first two chapters of P. Adams Sitney's "Visionary Film" (multiple editions - get the cheapest used) for a more sophisticated reading of her major works. If you're still wanting to go further after that, this book offers a range of dense analyses of different aspects of her career, from ethnographic perspectives to her problematic relation with Feminism, to her idea of avant-garde vs. hollywood film, and so forth.
2 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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SKip the book see the films,
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This review is from: Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde: Includes the complete text of An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and Film (Paperback)
Unless you really need to impress a hippie boomer professor with Avant-Garde verbal overkill I would urge you to just take Deren's films at face value and make your own, rather than wading through her dreary overwrought prose.
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Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde: Includes the complete text of An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and Film by Bill Nichols (Paperback - October 1, 2001)
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