Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Im, Warren Paperback+-

State University of New York Press

Writ on Water\nby Charles Warren\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Charles Warren\nTitle: Writ on Water\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Film history, theory or criticism\nPublisher: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438488103\nISBN-10: 1438488106\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of \""film imagination\"" to our lives as human beings in the world.\nThis eloquent book draws on the author''s responses to a wide range of extraordinary films-\""long takes\"" on Altman''s Nashville, Godard''s Hail Mary, Makavejev''s WR: Mysteries of the Organism, and von Sternberg''s Blonde Venus, as well as \""short takes\"" on films by Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Chantal Akerman, Ross McElwee, Michelangelo.