The Afterimage Reader Edited by Mark Webber The Visible Press, May 2022
Foreword Simon Field
Introduction Mark Webber – Looking Back at Afterimage
Texts Simon Hartog – Nowsreel (on the newsreel movement) Jean-Luc Godard – What is to be Done? (on making political films) Simon Field – Editorial 1: Avant-Garde Film Peter Sainsbury – Editorial 2: Avant-Garde Film Stephen Dwoskin – Mare’s Tail (on David Larcher) Simon Field – Editorial: Third World Cinema Peter Sainsbury – Battle of Algiers (on Gillo Pontecorvo) John Matthews – … And After (on Latin American and guerrilla cinema) Peter Sainsbury – Editorial: For a New Cinema Peter Wollen – Counter Cinema: Vent d’est (on Jean-Luc Godard) Simon Field – Interview with Hollis Frampton Peter Sainsbury – Editorial: Aesthetics/ldeology/Cinema Noël Burch & Jorge Dana – Propositions (on Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Carl Dreyer) Simon Field – Editorial: Perspectives on English Independent Cinema Tony Rayns – Born to Kill: Mr. Soft Eliminator (on Jeff Keen) Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen – Written Discussion (on Penthesilea) Simon Field – Editorial: Hearing:Seeing Edward Bennett – The Films of Straub are not ‘Theoretical’ (on Straub/Huillet) B. Ruby Rich – Kristina Talking Pictures … For an Introduction Simon Field – Editorial: Beginning … and Beginning Again Rod Stoneman – Perspective Correction: Early Film to the Avant-Garde Deke Dusinberre – See Real Images! (on Guy Sherwin, Steve Farrer, Lis Rhodes) Ian Christie – Editorial: Myths of Total Cinema Jean Epstein – The Senses 1 (b) (on photogénie) Ian Christie & Malcolm Coad – Between Institutions: Interview with Raúl Ruiz Simon Field – Editorial: Sighting Snow Michael O’Pray – Framing Snow (on Michael Snow) Simon Field – Editorial: The Troublesome Cases (on Derek Jarman and Borderline) Michael O’Pray – Derek Jarman’s Cinema: Eros and Thanatos Derek Jarman – P.P.P. in the Garden of Earthly Delights (unrealised film proposal) Simon Field – Editorial: Animating the Fantastic Roger Cardinal – Stirrings in the Dust (on visionary animation) Jan Švankmajer – The Magic Ritual of Tactile Inauguration Paul Hammond – In Quay Animation (on Brothers Quay)
Afterword Ian Christie
Appendices Editor’s Notes Index of contents for Afterimage 1–13 Alphabetical list of contents by contributor for Afterimage 1–13 Credits for Afterimage 1–13
Images Illustrated throughout with images that appeared in the original magazine.
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