edited by Bernd Herzogenrath
Amsterdam University Press, 2017
Cloth: 978-90-8964-996-6 | eISBN: 978-90-485-2909-4
Library of Congress Classification PN1998.3.M6855F55 2018

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and his 2002 film Decasia was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career. It gathers specialists throughout film studies to explore Morrison's "aesthetics of the archive"-his creative play with archival footage and his focus on the materiality of the medium of film.