Stan Brakhage: Film Biographies (1977)

A collection of lectures delivered by Brahkhage while he was teaching at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1970-73. Filmmakers discussed include George Melies, D.W. Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Jean Vigo, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, and Alexender Dovzhenko. A special lecture is dedicated to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Introductions to the text by Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Guy Davenport.

Publisher Turtle Island, Berkeley, 1977
ISBN 0913666173
295 pages

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Peter Gidal: Materialist Film (1989)

“A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.

Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the contradictory issues produced by experimental film. Each concept is explored in conjunction with specific films by Andy Warhol, Malcolm LeGrice, Lis Rhodes, Jean-Luc Goddard, Rose Lowder, Kurt Kren, and others.

Peter Gidal draws on important politico-aesthetic writings, and uses some of his own previously published essays from Undercut, Screen, October, and Millennium Film Journal to undertake this concrete process of working through abstract concepts.”

Publisher Routledge, 1989
ISBN 0415003822, 9780415003827
189 pages
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Review: Wheeler Winston Dixon (Prairie Schooner, 1990)

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Stefano Piselli, Riccardo Morrocchi (eds.): Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema, 1968-1972 (2004) [English/Italian]

Franco the libertine, Ella the nymphomaniac, Gilberto the mad sadist, Sayer the aesthete sadist, Mary the homicidal mantis, Ahmed the debauched, X. the vicious politician, X. the fanatic and moralist judge, Kay the sexually dissatisfied, the mysterious Greta, Diana the arrogant mistress and her black servant Janita, Santino the foot fetichist, the psychopatic Dr. Lyutak, the submissive Marcia, the refined Lesbians Paula and Mudy, Silvia the happy masochist… These are the eccentric characters enliving the stories of this anthology of Italian movies from the so-called Sexual Revolution, featured in the form of “cineromanzo”. Krafft-Ebing’s theories, Sade’s fantasies, Freud’s analyses in a mix of sequences chosen from rare Italian magazines of the 1970s.

Publisher Glittering Images, Firenze, 2004
ISBN 8882750477
104 pages

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See also Bizarre Sinema! Jess Franco. El sexo del horror, 1999. (in English/Italian, 30 MB, no OCR)