Film Culture: Ten Issues. Volume 1, No. 1, 1955 - Volume 3, No. 2(12), 1957 (Missing No. 3 and No. 9)

New York: Film Culture, 1955-1957.

Price: $1,500.00

Softcover. Volume 1, No. 1, 1955 - Volume 3, No. 2(12), 1957. Missing Volume 1, No. 3 and Volume 2 No. 4(9). Illustrated in black and white. Stapled wrappers. Octavos and Quartos. Rubbing with moderate edgewear, Volume 1, No. 2 has detached (but present) wrappers, overall volumes very good or better. Ten issues (across nine publications) of the scarce film magazine that explored avant-garde cinema from 1955-1996. Features: "For a Universal Cinema" by Orson Welles, "The Film as an Original Art Form" by Hans Richter, "A Family Tree of Monsters" by William K. Everson, "Opera on the Screen" by Siegfried Kracauer, "The Contemporary West German Film as a Social Symptom" by Enno Patalas, "Film in Uruguay" by Eugenio Hintz, "Film in Spain" by José Clemente, "The Puppet Film as an Art": An Interview with Jiri Trnka, "Responsibility of the Film Artist" by Hans E. Mutzenbecher, "60 Years of Cinema in France" by Lotte H. Eisner, "Generation Without a Cause" by Eugene Archer, "The Western - Old and New" by George N. Fenin, "Modest and Pretension in Two New Films" by Jay Leyda, "The Silent World of Slapstick (1912-1916") by Mark Sufrin, "George Stevens on the American Dream" by Eugene Archer, "We Are All Murderers" by Arlene Croce, "Learning the Film at UCLA" by Daniel Lusa, and more. Additional contributions by Gideon Bachmann, Tony Richardson, Peter Hollander, Francis Bolen, Guido Aristarco, Hans Richter, Edouard L. de Laurot, Herman G. Weinberg, Lotte H. Eisner, Donald Phelps, Lewis Jacobs, Gordon Hendricks, and many more.

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Item #545087 Film Culture: Ten Issues. Volume 1, No. 1, 1955 - Volume 3, No. 2(12), 1957 (Missing No. 3 and No. 9). Jonas MEKAS.