Movie Journal

The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971

Jonas Mekas, Peter Bogdanovich, Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker , Jonas Mekas

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Columbia University Press
19 April 2016

Films, movies & cinema

Series: Film and Culture Series

"In his Village Voice ""Movie Journal"" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most essential characteristics of these films into a unique conception of American filmmaking's next phase. He simplified complex aesthetic strategies for unfamiliar audiences and appreciated the subversive genius of films that many dismissed as trash. This new edition presents Mekas's original critiques in full, with additional material on the filmmakers, film studies scholars, and popular and avant-garde critics whom he inspired and transformed."

By: Jonas Mekas
Afterword by: Jonas Mekas
Foreword by: Peter Bogdanovich
Introduction by: Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: second edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 751g
ISBN: 9780231175562
ISBN 10: 0231175566
Series: Film and Culture Series
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 19 April 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword: The Great Mr. Mekas, by Peter Bogdanovich Introduction to the Second Edition, by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker Introduction 1. 1959 2. 1960 3. 1961 4. 1962 5. 1963 6. 1964 7. 1965 8. 1966 9. 1967 10. 1968 11. 1969 12. 1970 13. 1971 Afterword by Jonas Mekas Appendix Index

"Jonas Mekas is a filmmaker, critic, and poet who lives and works in Brooklyn. His ""Movie Journal"" column ran in the Village Voice from 1958 to 1975. In 1954, he cofounded the journal Film Culture. His major films include The Brig (1964), Walden (Diaries, Notes, Sketches) (1969), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971), and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000). Peter Bogdanovich is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker is the managing editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture."

Reviews for Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971

You cannot overestimate Mekas's importance as a writer, organizer, and polemicist. He is a unique and highly important figure in American film culture; his voice is eccentric and inimitable. -- J. Hoberman Zucker does an excellent job chronicling the importance of Mekas as a figure in criticism, filmmaking, and alternative screening and distribution networks. -- Maureen Turim, University of Florida Jonas Mekas' Movie Journal column was my underground bible growing up as a teenager in Baltimore, Maryland and it's still a radical, highly original call to arms against the tyranny of mainstream cinema. I am who I am today because of it. -- John Waters Jonas Mekas's Village Voice criticism (his Movie Journal ) was far and away the most influential and most astute for the Sixties and Seventies for a generation of readers dissatisfied with mere commercial reviewing. Mekas dared to write for the future as well as the present, pointing to films that would endure, even if they were hidden or despised. Of course, it turned out he was right. -- P. Adams Sitney, Princeton University Jonas Mekas's 'Movie Journal' entries are as remarkable, invaluable, and original as his films. We are so lucky to have them finally back in print! -- Jim Jarmusch