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"Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in different countries, in different generations - Cahun in France in 1894, Deren in Russia in 1917, and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet they share a deeply theatrical obsession that shatters any notion of a unified self. All three try out identities from different social classes and geographic environments, extend their temporal range into the past and future, and transform themselves into heroes and villains, mythological creatures, and sex goddesses. The premise of Inverted Odysseys is that this expanded concept of the self - this playful urge to "try on" other roles - is more than a feminist or psychological issue. It is central to our global culture, to our definition of human identity in a world where the individual exists in a multicultural and multemporal environment. This book is an "odyssey" through historical, theoretical, critical, and literary perspectives on the three artists viewed in the context of these issues."--Jacket.
Photography, Artistic --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Photography --- Cahun, Claude, --- Deren, Maya --- Sherman, Cindy --- Derenkowsky, Elenora --- Derenkowsky, Eleanora --- Deren, Elenora --- Deren, Eleanora --- Bardacke, Elenora --- Bardacke, Eleanora --- Hammid, Elenora --- Hammid, Eleanora --- Hammid, Maya --- Ito, Maya --- Courlis, Claude, --- Schwob, Lucy,
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Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940's and 1950's. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic movements and films. Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work and her numerous unfinished projects, arguing Deren's overarching aesthetic is founded on principles of incompletion, contingency, and openness. Combining the contrasting approaches of documentary, experimental, and creative film, Deren created a wholly original experience for film audiences that disrupted the subjectivity of cinema, its standards of continuity, and its dubious facility with promoting categories of realism. This critical retrospective reflects on the development of Deren's career and the productive tensions she initiated that continue to energize film.
Experimental films --- Independent filmmakers --- Film --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- Kino --- Spielfilm --- Filmaufnahme --- Filme --- Spielfilme --- Audiovisuelles Material --- Videokassette --- Independent moviemakers --- Motion picture producers and directors --- History and criticism. --- Deren, Maya --- Derenkowsky, Elenora --- Derenkowsky, Eleanora --- Deren, Elenora --- Deren, Eleanora --- Bardacke, Elenora --- Bardacke, Eleanora --- Hammid, Elenora --- Hammid, Eleanora --- Hammid, Maya --- Ito, Maya --- Criticism and interpretation.
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