[Frameworks] abstraction and politics

[Kate Dollenmayer]

"Fear of Blushing" by Jennifer Reeves


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Chuck Kleinhans
<chuckkle at northwestern.edu>wrote:

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>  On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Steve Polta wrote:
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>  *Seeking the Monkey* *King* by Ken Jacobs is entirely abstract visually
> but uses textual intertitles to specifically comment on capitalism, the
> current economy, the Occupy movement, etc.
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>  I agree this is a particularly apt example.
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>  While not quite so visually abstract, for some earlier theoretical
> discussions of the political aspects of (relatively) abstract (or
> minimalist) film, you could look at Peter Gidal's edited collection of
> essays on what he called Structural/Material film (most polemically in his
> own films and writings; the others discussed are sort of roped in, IMHO).
>  And preceding that, Noel Burch's book, Theory of Film Practice, has lots
> of interesting insights into work emerging especially in the 1960s, reading
> both politics and form in challenging ways.
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>  Chuck Kleinhans
> chuckkle at northwestern.edu
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