[Frameworks] A new book: Lost Highways, Embodied Travels & thanks

[Stephen Anker]

Dear Kornelia,
Congratulations on this achievement. Your list of films is vast, and
includes a remarkably thorough treatment of the subject. I hope it finds
its way into many schools and public libraries. My best, Steve

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 10:13 AM Kornelia Boczkowska <
kornelia.boczkowska at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Apologies for the self-promotion, but I wanted to draw your attention to
> my book, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American
> Experimental Film and Video, published by Brill in early February:
> https://brill.com/display/title/64181
>
> The book - which is the culmination of my grant-funded research carried
> out between 2017 and 2022 - draws on the tradition of experimental film
> catalogs and can hopefully serve our community as a critical guide to
> both lesser known/rarely screened and critically acclaimed films. My
> intention was to discuss a wide array of artist-made moving images (83 in
> total) and to specifically focus on works that are significantly
> underrepresented in film criticism and elsewhere.
>
> I’d like to thank everyone (also on Frameworks) who has offered me all
> kinds of assistance when I was working on this project, especially friends
> and colleagues from the SF Bay Area. Your support is greatly appreciated!
> Thanks to filmmaker and friend Dominic Angerame for giving me permission to
> use a still from his Premonition for the cover image.
>
> I’m attaching a 25% discount code on the book along with the ToC and
> Introduction, which outline the book's contents and structure. Also, if
> anyone's interested, I'll be happy to share some short excerpts from the
> book with you, just let me know. The blurb says:
>
> Often identified as one of the most genuine and enduring American film
> genres, the road movie has never been explored in the context of
> experimental filmmaking. To fill this gap, *Lost Highways, Embodied
> Travels* provides the first book-length study of over eighty unique and
> often obscure films and videos and situates them within the corporeal turn
> in American avant-garde cinema, so far mostly associated with body genres
> and sexually explicit films. Drawing on unpublished archival materials, the
> book offers a fresh take on both past and current practices of the
> experimental film community for scholars, students, makers and film buffs.
>
> My best,
>
> Kornelia
>
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> Kornelia Boczkowska, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Studies in Culture
> Faculty of English | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kornelia_Boczkowskahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-9209
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