George Derk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Derk |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Derk |
| SIGNATURE | DERK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Inverting Hollywood from the outside in: The films within Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman
A recent essay by Racquel Gates on Melvin Van Peebles’s Watermelon Man (1976) offers a number of lessons to scholars and filmmakers alike on how a studio-produced film, in the right hands, can work against the racial exclusion that continues to be one of Hollywood’s defining characteristics. Among these lessons is the assertion that Van Peebles’s aesthetic choices put his film ‘in conversation with the history of black images on television, a rem…
Make It Old: Hollis Frampton contra Ezra Pound
Hollis Frampton's films have often been characterized as the afterimages of literary modernism. While the material and linguistic concerns of his early films as well as his time spent visiting Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital attest to the impact that modernist poetics had on him, the grand finale of his career-the cycle of films that comprise Magellan-marked his most significant departure from these original influences. Considering Magellan…
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Inverting Hollywood from the outside in: The films within Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman
A recent essay by Racquel Gates on Melvin Van Peebles’s Watermelon Man (1976) offers a number of lessons to scholars and filmmakers alike on how a studio-produced film, in the right hands, can work against the racial exclusion that continues to be one of Hollywood’s defining characteristics. Among these lessons is the assertion that Van Peebles’s aesthetic choices put his film ‘in conversation with the history of black images on television, a rem…
Make It Old: Hollis Frampton contra Ezra Pound
Hollis Frampton's films have often been characterized as the afterimages of literary modernism. While the material and linguistic concerns of his early films as well as his time spent visiting Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital attest to the impact that modernist poetics had on him, the grand finale of his career-the cycle of films that comprise Magellan-marked his most significant departure from these original influences. Considering Magellan…
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