Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical AnthologyScott MacKenzie Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture. |
Contents
THE AVANTGARDES | 13 |
An Open Letter to the Film Industry and to All Who Are Interested | 44 |
No More Flat Feet France 1952 | 50 |
A Statement of Principles USA 1961 | 56 |
From Metaphors on Vision USA 1963 | 62 |
Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto USA 1964 | 69 |
Commonplace Notes | 78 |
Elements of the Void Greece 1972 | 86 |
Another Face of Colonised Québec | 264 |
Millimeters versus 8 Millions Mexico 1972 | 272 |
Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema | 286 |
Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers | 294 |
Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers Niger 1982 | 303 |
Jollywood Manifesto Haiti 2008 | 320 |
Womans Place in Photoplay Production USA 1914 | 328 |
My Porn Manifesto France 2002 | 390 |
Lets Set | 100 |
NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CINEMAS | 109 |
French Cinema Is Over France 1952 | 123 |
A Certain Tendency in French Cinema France 1954 | 133 |
Salamanca Manifesto Conclusions of the Congress | 144 |
Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement India 1968 | 165 |
Dogme 95 Manifesto and Vow of Chastity Denmark | 201 |
THIRD CINEMAS COLONIALISM DECOLONIZATION | 207 |
For an Imperfect Cinema Cuba 1969 | 220 |
Film Makers and the Popular Government Political | 250 |
An Internal Category of Third Cinema | 256 |
Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto UK 2009 | 396 |
MILITATING HOLLYWOOD | 403 |
STATES DICTATORSHIPS THE COMINTERN AND THEOCRACIES | 487 |
ARCHIVES MUSEUMS FESTIVALS AND CINEMATHEQUES | 517 |
Brooklyn Babylon Cinema Manifesto USA 1998 | 555 |
SOUNDS AND SILENCE | 565 |
THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION | 575 |
AESTHETICS AND THE FUTURES OF THE CINEMA | 593 |
Takahiko limura Koichiro Ishizaki et | 636 |
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