From: Marcos Ortega (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 17 2009 - 07:28:46 PDT
They're fake, of course... but some of them would make a really
interesting read! Quoting Jonathan Walley <email suppressed>:
> I think these are all invented. Either that or google is WAY behind.
> EVERY title is co-authored, moreover by one film/video scholar and one
> art scholar (Gidal and Foster, McEvilley and Rodowick). Each title
> indicates the merging of two disciplines, usually film/video/media
> studies and art history (hence the "from this...to that" or "this and
> that" pattern to the titles). And I'm not sure I see Scott MacDonald
> doing something on network theory...
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> Still, I'd read any of these phantom books.
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> Jonathan Walley
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Cinema
> Denison University
> Granville, Ohio
> email suppressed
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> On Sep 16, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Bernard Roddy wrote:
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>> The Return of Representation in Avant-Garde Film (BFI), by Peter
>> Gidal and Hal Foster. A startling reconsideration of abstraction
>> and politics.
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>> From Happening to Frame, by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Jane Blocker
>> (Minnesota). Blocker subjects the critic to postmodernist
>> feminist theory through recent avant-garde film.
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>> Performance, camcorder, text, by Robin Curtis and Raymond Bellour
>> (some French publisher), with an introduction by Friedrich
>> Kittler. A penetrating analysis of digital video sequences
>> conceived as text.
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>> Paul McCarthy and the Stage, by Thomas McEvilley and D.N. Rodowick
>> (Michigan). McCarthy's recent work is discussed in terms of
>> Deleuzian film theory and Yves Klein.
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>> Reviving the Dead: Video art's appropriation of film history
>> (Duke), by Jeffrey Skoller and Kobena Mercer. The text launches
>> with a discussion of history and death in postcolonial theory.
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>> Liveness and Recent Artist's Performance Film (Routledge), by
>> Philip Auslander and Catherine Elwes. Need I say more?
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>> From Cinema 16 to Network Theory (MIT), by Eugene Thacker and
>> Scott MacDonald. Thacker brings his insights on network theory to
>> the current scene in experimental film.
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>> Bernie
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Best regards,
Marcos Ortega
http://www.expcinema.com
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