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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