Fields of View

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Fields of View

Film, Art and Spectatorship

Digital, video and new media arts Films, cinema Film history, theory or criticism

Author: A.L. Rees

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Language: English

Published by: British Film Institute

Published on: 29th October 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 288 pages

ISBN: 9781838719951


Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history

Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture. In this bold and original work, A.L. Rees identifies three key terms - field, frame and interval - and charts their use by filmmakers and theorists such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Bruce Baillie, Maya Deren, Malcolm Le Grice and Werner Nekes, from the 1920s through to the present day.

A seminal voice in film culture, Rees left the incomplete manuscript for this book on his death, and Simon Payne has subsequently carefully prepared the book for publication. Fields of View is an important work that establishes a unique perspective on experimental film.

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