Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson

by P. Adams Sitney

Book Overview

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the
Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533115X
• ISBN13: 9780195331158
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"