{"product_id":"screen-writings-9780520080256","title":"Screen Writings","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors.\"—Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental \"language art.\" It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script is introduced and contextualized by MacDonald; a filmography and a bibliography round out the volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a readable—often quite funny—literature that investigates differences between seeing and reading. Represented are avant-garde classics such as Hollis Frampton's \u003ci\u003ePoetic Justice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZorns Lemma\u003c\/i\u003e and Morgan Fisher's \u003ci\u003eStandard Gauge\u003c\/i\u003e, and William Greaves's recently rediscovered \u003ci\u003eSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One\u003c\/i\u003e. Michael Snow turns film loose on language in \u003ci\u003eSo Is This\u003c\/i\u003e; Peter Rose turns language loose on theory in \u003ci\u003ePressures of the Text\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the most influential feminist filmscripts of recent decades—Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's \u003ci\u003eRiddles of the Sphinx\u003c\/i\u003e, Su Friedrich's \u003ci\u003eGently Down the Stream\u003c\/i\u003e, Trinh T. Minh-ha's \u003ci\u003eReassemblage\u003c\/i\u003e, Yvonne Rainer's \u003ci\u003ePrivilege\u003c\/i\u003e—confirm this book's importance for readers in gender and cultural studies as well as for filmmakers and admirers of experimental writing, independent cinema, and the visual arts in general.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scott MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960056549494,"sku":"9780520080256","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_2a96aa50-d733-465b-98f0-6d972a72d038.jpg?v=1767791493","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/screen-writings-9780520080256","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}