On the Eve of the Future
Selected Writings on Film
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2017
Summary
The first collection of Annette Michelson’s influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others.The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the im…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262035507 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262035502 |
| Author: | Annette Michelson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 926g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 24mm |
| Series: | October Books |
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About The Author
Annette Michelson
Annette Michelson (1922-2018) was widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers on film. During her more than five-decade career, she was an art editor and critic for the New York Herald Tribune, a writer for Artforum, a founding editor of the journal October, and Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Some of Michelson’s essays on film were collected in On the Eve of the Future- Selected Writings on Film (MIT Press).
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