Annie van den Oever (ed.): Technē/Technology: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies (2014)

“This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term technē comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing the study of film. In addition, the authors – among them André Gaudreault, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Martin Lefebvre, Dominique Chateau, Nanna Verhoeff, Andreas Fickers and Ian Christie – investigate how technologies have affected the major debates about film, how they affected film theory and some of its key concepts. This is one of the rare books to assess the comprehensive history of the philosophies of technology and their impact on film and media theory in greater detail.”

Publisher Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2014
The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies series
Creative Commons BY NC ND License 3.0
ISBN 9089645713, 9789089645715
413 pages

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OAPEN

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Martin Walsh: The Brechtian Aspect of Radical Cinema (1981)

Martin Walsh had been a regular contributor to film magazines in Britain, Canada and the United States and had established himself as a leading proponent of a radical aesthetics of cinema associated with the work of Bertolt Brecht. Keith M. Griffiths, a film-maker and lifelong friend of Walsh, has gathered together for this volume a selection of his published writings, together with some previously unpublished, united around the theme of the Brechtian aspect of radical cinema. Whether discussing Brecht himself, or the Russian film-maker Alexander Medvedkin, or the work of Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, these essays are distinguished by their commitment to the clear expression of ideas and problems of great relevance to cinema. (from the back cover)

Edited by Keith M. Griffiths.
Publisher British Film Institute, London, 1981
ISBN 0851701124
136 pages
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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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