Performing Arts History & Criticism
Body in Film, The
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2006
- Category
- History & Criticism
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554581597
- Publish Date
- Jan 2006
- List Price
- $85.00
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About the author
R. Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, critic, and teacher (and former Program Director) in the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. His film work has been screened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Film Workshop, Berlin’s Kino Arsenal, Paris’ Centre Pompidou, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Atlanta’s High Museum, Los Angeles’ Film Forum, Stadtfilmmuseum München, and Hamburg’s Kino Metropolis. Retrospectives of his work have been presented by Anthology Film Archives (NY), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Cinématheque Québecoise, Il Festival Senzatitolo (Trento), Images Film and Video Festival (Toronto). Cinematheque Ontario has said this about him: “R. Bruce Elder is not only one of Canada’s foremost experimental filmmakers, he’s one of our greatest artists, thinkers, critics, and filmmakers, period.” Harmony & Dissent, his previous book on film and avant-garde art movements, was awarded the Robert Motherwell Book Prize, shortlisted for the Raymond Kilbansky Prize, and named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2010. His next book entitled DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect is forthcoming from WLU Press.
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Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect
DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect
The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson
Harmony and Dissent
Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
Image and Identity
Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture
Image and Identity
Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture
A Body of Vision
Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry
