Poetry and Avant-Garde Film
Three Recent Contributions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Macdonald (0000-0002-3200-6031, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-41 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-2006-014 |
| OpenAlex | W2051707465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article begins with an overview of the relationship of poetry and independent film. It proceeds to focus on three independent films that use the cinematic apparatus as a means of publishing poetry. Waterworx, a film by Canadian Rick Hancox, recycles Wallace Stevens's "A Clear Day and No Memories" in a manner that confirms the accomplishment of the original poem while embedding it, subtly as well as evocatively, within the filmmaker's personal context. nebel (mist), by German filmmaker Matthias Müller, re-presents a cycle of poems by Ernst Jandl, Gedichte an die kindheit (Poems to Childhood). Müller's film carefully weaves a recitation of the Jandl poems together with a variety of "found" visual images, including shots from The Wizard of Oz and home movies made during the 1960s by the filmmaker's father, in a manner that provides evocative confirmations and counterpoints to Jandl's text. Canadian Clive Holden's Trains of Winnipeg republishes a set of the filmmaker's own poems from a book by the same name; it is the first feature film I am aware of that is entirely devoted to the presentation of poetic texts
Art · Art history · Film director · German · Literature · Movie theater · Poetry · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |