Film Culture (May-June 1955)

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Record Details:

Title:
Film Culture
Date:
May-June 1955
Publisher:
Film Culture
Volume:
Film Culture (May-June, 1955) (Vol. 1, No. 3)
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
October 19, 2023
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THE IMPRISONED SELF THE EXPERIMENTAL FILM IN AMERICA JONAS MEKAS Terminology and Systematization LTHOUGH it is still too early for an elaborate systematization of film forms, we can clearly distinguish several main categories: kKILM DRAMA: Encompasses film drama in all its genres: comedy, musical, western, thriller, adventure films, drawing room and outdoor tragedies and melodramas, filmed plays, operas and novels. FILM POEM: (a) Epic film poem, denoting or pertaining to poetic composition in which a series of heroic achievements or events is dealt with at length as a continuous narrative in elevated style. (Here Dovzhenko’s Earth is a good example). (b) Lyrical film poem, having the form and character of the songlike outpouring of the poet’s own thoughts and feelings (as distinguished from epic and dramatic films with their more extended and set forms and their presentation of external subjects) . Here belong most of the so-called avantgarde and experimental films, works like Chien Andalou or Fireworks. CINEPLASTICS: Encompasses that part of the so-called experimental film which is described as abstract, non objective — all pattern, light and rhythm films (Rhythmus 21, Motion Painting No. 1, H?O, etc.). DOCUMENT FILM: (a) Documentary film — realist, impressionist or poetical, the primary purpose of which is non-instructional (though teaching). (b) Interest film: Newsreels, compilations, educational — instructional