|
|
Article: "Not to creation or destruction but to truth": Robert Duncan, Kenneth Anger, and the conversation between film and poetry.(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Aesthetic values characterized in part by serial form, liberatory depictions of male queerness, and an allegiance to or engagement with hermetic magic practices are generally recognized as part of Robert Duncan's overall poetics. This essay is a modest attempt to situate those poetics within the context of Robert Duncan's decades-long friendship with filmmaker Kenneth Anger. I write this primarily because no published work has as yet investigated the possibility that "New American" or "Underground" Cinema (1) had an effect on Duncan's work, despite the fact of Duncan's well-known interactions with filmmakers including Anger, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, and others.
...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Puce Modern Moment: Camp, Postmodernism, and the Films of ...
Journal of Film and Video;
December 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... The notes, like the film, are by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who shot and edited the film in 1949, when he was nineteen ... has heretofore gone unexplored. In mobilizing the films of Kenneth Anger to examine the historical, aesthetic, and ideological connections ...
|
|