This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film

by Abigail Child

Explores how two language systems inform and cross-fertilize the author's work

As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817351604
• ISBN13: 9780817351601
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"