Experimental Cinema : Structures, Systems and Strategies

Name: Experimental Cinema : Structures, Systems and Strategies
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Experimental CinemaStructures, Systems and Strategies\nAuthor(s): Simon Payne\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: BFI Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781839026478, 978-1839026478\nSynopsis\nExperimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed from the late 1960s to the present. Over the decades, artists have responded to the ever-changing medium of cinema and its technological advances, as well as taking inspiration from painting, sculpture and music.\n\nSimon Payne argues that the evolution of methodical strategies in experimental cinema goes back to the first avant-garde films made a century ago, in the 1920s. He shows how key figures internationally have formed part of this picture since then, but suggests that the most thorough formal exploration of cinema can be credited to a generation of artists that began making films in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nPayne analyses the wo.