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Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on ?radical, pioneer, visionary? (Dargis 2013) filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the films she edited and directed.


The book draws on film analysis, archival research, dance and film theory, and creative practice expertise, to think through Clarke?s work as a dancer turned multi-award-winning editor and director of dancefilm, fiction, documentary, and video art. This account of Clarke?s creative oeuvre offers the reader insight into a too long overlooked filmmaker. Its creative practice and distributed cognition framework provides tools for dismantling some of the exclusionary aspects of authorship theories and offers a novel method for analysis of films, filmmaking practices and cultures of film production.

Shirley Clarke

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 1/31/2025
      ISBN-13 9781399501446
      978-1399501446
      ISBN-10 1399501445
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      Entertainment Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on ?radical, pioneer, visionary? (Dargis 2013) filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the films she edited and directed.


      The book draws on film analysis, archival research, dance and film theory, and creative practice expertise, to think through Clarke?s work as a dancer turned multi-award-winning editor and director of dancefilm, fiction, documentary, and video art. This account of Clarke?s creative oeuvre offers the reader insight into a too long overlooked filmmaker. Its creative practice and distributed cognition framework provides tools for dismantling some of the exclusionary aspects of authorship theories and offers a novel method for analysis of films, filmmaking practices and cultures of film production.

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