Off-screen cinema : Isidore Isou and the Lettrist avant-garde /
One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier w...
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University of Chicago Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- To salivate is not to speak, as boring as watching dust
- French cinema dies of suffocation
- Spasmodic spurts of white light on a sphere
- Eroticism should occur in the audience
- Epilogue
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. To Salivate Is Not to Speak, as Boring as Watching Dust
- Two. French Cinema Dies of Suffocation
- Three. Spasmodic Spurts of White Light on a Sphere
- Four. Eroticism Should Occur in the Audience
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Letters from Stan Brakhage
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index