Re: Forthcoming!

From: Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 17 2009 - 08:53:41 PDT


mmm...The Return of Representation in Avant-Garde Film by Peter Gidal. I would hate him if he suddenly was in favor of representations!

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:28:46 +0200
From: email suppressed
Subject: Re: Forthcoming!
To: email suppressed

They're fake, of course... but some of them would make a really interesting
read!

Quoting Jonathan Walley <email suppressed>:

> I think these are all invented. Either that or google is WAY behind.

> EVERY title is co-authored, moreover by one film/video scholar and one

> art scholar (Gidal and Foster, McEvilley and Rodowick). Each title

> indicates the merging of two disciplines, usually film/video/media

> studies and art history (hence the "from this...to that" or
"this and

> that" pattern to the titles). And I'm not sure I see Scott
MacDonald

> doing something on network theory...

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> Still, I'd read any of these phantom books.

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> Jonathan Walley

> Assistant Professor

> Department of Cinema

> Denison University

> Granville, Ohio

> email suppressed

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> On Sep 16, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Bernard Roddy wrote:

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>> The Return of Representation in Avant-Garde Film (BFI), by Peter

>> Gidal and Hal Foster. A startling reconsideration of abstraction

>> and politics.

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>> From Happening to Frame, by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Jane Blocker

>> (Minnesota). Blocker subjects the critic to postmodernist feminist

>> theory through recent avant-garde film.

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>> Performance, camcorder, text, by Robin Curtis and Raymond Bellour

>> (some French publisher), with an introduction by Friedrich Kittler.

>> A penetrating analysis of digital video sequences conceived as
text.

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>> Paul McCarthy and the Stage, by Thomas McEvilley and D.N. Rodowick

>> (Michigan). McCarthy's recent work is discussed in terms of

>> Deleuzian film theory and Yves Klein.

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>> Reviving the Dead: Video art's appropriation of film history

>> (Duke), by Jeffrey Skoller and Kobena Mercer. The text launches

>> with a discussion of history and death in postcolonial theory.

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>> Liveness and Recent Artist's Performance Film (Routledge), by

>> Philip Auslander and Catherine Elwes. Need I say more?

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>> From Cinema 16 to Network Theory (MIT), by Eugene Thacker and Scott

>> MacDonald. Thacker brings his insights on network theory to the

>> current scene in experimental film.

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