{"product_id":"stan-brakhage-in-rolling-stock-1980-1990-hardcover","title":"Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerry White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine \u003ci\u003eRolling Stock\u003c\/i\u003e, mostly publishing reports from the Telluride Film Festival. These reports show that Brakhage was keenly interested in world cinema, anxious to meet and dialogue with filmmakers of many different stripes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book also contains substantial discussion of Brakhage's work in light of the filmmakers he encountered at Telluride and discussed in \u003ci\u003eRolling Stock\u003c\/i\u003e. Long chapters are given over to Soviet filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Larissa Shepitko, and Sergei Parajanov, as well as the German filmmaker Hans-J rgen Syberberg. Brakhage was a keen viewer of these filmmakers and their contemporaries, both at Telluride and in his role as teacher at the University of Colorado, and \u003ci\u003eStan Brakhage and Rolling Stock\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to place his work alongside theirs and thus reclaim him for world cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book's appendices reprint letters Brakhage wrote to Stella Pence (Telluride's co-founder and managing director), as well as summaries of his work for Telluride and a brace of difficult-to-find reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 379\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 9.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730151968831,"sku":"9781771123037","price":149.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8645069fc947f9094d90ed16e19ba1a8.webp?v=1765125024","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/stan-brakhage-in-rolling-stock-1980-1990-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}