[Frameworks] film analysis again

[Jonathan Walley]

David Bordwell's book on Ozu is a towering achievement. And it's  
available for free pdf download here:
https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/facultyseries/list/series/ozu.php

In a very different way, Bazin's book on Renoir. "The French  
Renoir" (Chapter 5) is perhaps the best, most complete, and most  
sophisticated statement of Bazin's aesthetic. Some of its passages are  
pure poetry, too.

Not so many books on avant-garde/experimental filmmakers come to mind.  
Lots of essay collections dedicated to a single filmmaker (e.g. the  
recent book on Ken Jacobs), but fewer sustained, book-length efforts.  
Several on Warhol, of course, but it's practically impossible to cover  
his total body of film work. JJ Murphy's recent THE BLACK HOLE OF THE  
CAMERA comes closest, and I highly recommend it.

Jonathan

Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor of Cinema
Denison University


On May 18, 2012, at 9:50 PM, John MacKay wrote:

>
> On May 18, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote:
>
>> I’m sure you filled in the missing word, but it bugs me to leave it  
>> uncorrected:
>>
>> Friends,
>> What would you cite as the most detailed and comprehensive analysis  
>> ever written about the form and content of one filmmaker’s total  
>> body of work?
>
> Not sure: Charlie Musser's BEFORE THE NICKELODEON (on Porter)? Tom  
> Gunning's FILMS OF FRITZ LANG? Interesting question….
>
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