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.boczkow...@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 Drawing on unpublished archival materials, the 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 > > -- > 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 > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > Frameworks@film-gallery.org > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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