{"product_id":"on-the-eve-of-the-future-selected-writings-on-film-october-books-9780262035507","title":"On the Eve of the Future Selected Writings on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of Annette Michelson's influential writings on film, with essays on work by Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, Martha Rosler, and others.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. \u003ci\u003eOn the Eve of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than thirty years' worth of those essays, focusing on her most relevant engagements with avant-garde production in experimental cinema, particularly with the movement known as American Independent Cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes the first critical essay on Marcel Duchamp's film \u003ci\u003eAnemic Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, the first investigation into Joseph Cornell's filmic practices, and the first major exploratio\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733446177111,"sku":"9780262035507","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-eve-of-the-future-selected-writings-on-film-october-books-9780262035507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}