The Cinema of Poetry [Paperback]

Informed by the criticism of iconic filmmaker Pier Pasolini,The Cinema of Poetryoffers spirited explorations of poetry's influence on classic films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrey Tarkovsky. It also highlights how avant-garde films made by Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, Jerome Hiler, Gregory Markopoulos, and others found rich, unexpected sources of inspiration in a diverse group of poets that includes St?phane Mallarm?, Emily Dickinson, H.D., Ezra Pound, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, and Aeschylus. Written with verve and panache, it represents the culmination of P. Adams Sitney's career-long fascination with the intersection of poetry, film, and the avant-garde.


Preface
Introduction: An Autobiography of Enthusiasms
I
Pier Paolo Pasolini and The Cinema of 'Poetry'
Dimitri Kirsanoff's M?nilmontant
Ingmar Bergman's Primal Scene
Andrey Tarkovsky's Concept of Poetry
II
Poetry and the American Avant-garde Cinema
The Dialectict of Experience in Joseph Cornell's Films
Lawrence Jordan's Magical Instructions
Stan Brakhage's Poetics
Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the Polyvalent Film
Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos

P. Adams Sitney offers a monumental, enchanting account of poetry as cinema, turning the analogy upside-down, vividly and deftly tracing nuanced concepts of narrative versus lyric film, psychoanalysis, dreams, and social realities in European filmmakers as well as in cinema of the American avant-garde. Those familiar with Sitney's earlier 'visionary' scholarship will exult in the coming together of multiple strands; those unfamiliar, will be treated to a distilled, layered overview of a significant nexus in the history of film. --Susan McCabe, author ofCinematic Modernism

The Cinema of Poetryprobes the vital questions of poetic narrative and lyric filmmaking in Europe and the United States. Sitney holds film theory and biographical detail l3T