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Be sand, not oil : the life and work of Amos Vogel / edited by Paul Cronin.
- Title
- Be sand, not oil : the life and work of Amos Vogel / edited by Paul Cronin.
- Publication
- Wien: Österreichisches Filmmuseum : SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, [2014]
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- Description
- 267 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Amos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film historians and curators. An émigré from Austria who arrived in New York just before the Second World War, in 1947 he created Cinema 16, a pioneering film club aimed at audiences thirsty for work "that cannot be seen elsewhere," and in 1963 was instrumental in establishing the New York Film Festival. He later embarked on an ambitious teaching career, synthesizing decades of experience and directing his ideas towards students and, eventually, the wider public. In 1974 he published the culmination of his thoughts - along with an extraordinary collection of stills - in Film as a Subversive Art. On his death, the New York Times wrote that Vogel "exerted an influence on the history of film that few other non-filmmakers can claim." Be Sand, Not Oil is the first book about Vogel, and includes uncollected writings, an unpublished interview, and new essays documenting his never-ending quest for what Werner Herzog, his friend of many decades, has described as "adequate imagery."
- Series Statement
- FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen ; Volume 24
- Uniform Title
- FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen ; Bd. 24.
- Alternative Title
- Life and work of Amos Vogel
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / WERNER HERZOG -- Introduction / PAUL CRONIN -- Prologue: An Unpublished Letter / AMOS VOGEL -- Cinema 15: From a Young Cineaste’s Vienna Diaries / MICHAEL OMASTA -- Means of Locomotion / AMOS VOGEL -- Politics Make the Man / PAUL CRONIN -- The Ideals of the American Middle Class in U.S. Movies / AMOS VOGEL -- Documentary and the Avant-Garde: The Search for the Truth in Cinema / AMOS VOGEL -- On Cinema 16 / AMOS VOGEL -- Film Comes First / SCOTT MACDONALD -- Thank You, Nikita Sergeyevich! / AMOS VOGEL -- Risks and Rewards of Cinematic Clairvoyance / AMOS VOGEL -- The Camera as Pen / AMOS VOGEL -- Advice to Moviegoers / AMOS VOGEL -- Amos Vogel and the New York Film Festival, 1963–1969 / TOM YOSHIKAMI -- Dear Susan / AMOS VOGEL -- The Pointer Moves / AMOS VOGEL -- The Bad and the Beautiful: La Guerre est Commencée / AMOS VOGEL -- Notes for a Film Festival / AMOS VOGEL -- Brief story outline for a film concerning God / AMOS VOGEL -- Atrocities and Artless Innocence / AMOS VOGEL -- A nation comes out of shell-shock / AMOS VOGEL -- Film as a Subversive Art / AMOS VOGEL -- The Exorcist / AMOS VOGEL -- Independents: Animation / AMOS VOGEL-- Parker Tyler / AMOS VOGEL -- Grim Death / AMOS VOGEL -- The Philadelphia Story: Amos at Annenberg / AMOS VOGEL -- Tears / AMOS VOGEL -- Mechanisms of Domination / AMOS VOGEL -- Art in the Third Reich / AMOS VOGEL -- The Atom and Eve of Destruction / AMOS VOGEL -- To Counteract the Forces: An Interview with Amos Vogel / BILL NICHOLS -- Avant-garde Film / AMOS VOGEL -- Berlin Diary: Two Weeks in November / AMOS VOGEL -- The Eternal Subversion / AMOS VOGEL -- Epilogue: The Power of Books / AMOS VOGEL.
- ISBN
- 9783901644597 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 893163912
- SCSB-10903428
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library