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Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties 17
- The Old Days 49
- "Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris 62
- The Apron Strings of mm Jonas Mekas 83
- How I Think I Made Some of My Films 97
- The Forest and The Trees 100
- Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas 121
- During the Second Half of the Sixties 138
- Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden 145
- A Portfolio of Photographs 180
- Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths 193
- My Contacts with Jonas Mekas 213
- Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist 215
- Dear Friends 240
- Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 241
- A Tale of Two Co-ops 255
- Jonas Mekas 266
- Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema 268
- Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas? 284
- Video at Anthology 286
- I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas 293
- Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World 294
- Appendixes 313
- Index 327
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties 17
- The Old Days 49
- "Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris 62
- The Apron Strings of mm Jonas Mekas 83
- How I Think I Made Some of My Films 97
- The Forest and The Trees 100
- Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas 121
- During the Second Half of the Sixties 138
- Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden 145
- A Portfolio of Photographs 180
- Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths 193
- My Contacts with Jonas Mekas 213
- Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist 215
- Dear Friends 240
- Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 241
- A Tale of Two Co-ops 255
- Jonas Mekas 266
- Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema 268
- Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas? 284
- Video at Anthology 286
- I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas 293
- Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World 294
- Appendixes 313
- Index 327