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Film Culture: No. 24 Spring 1962
by Jonas Mekas (editor)
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very good, wear and rubbing to ends of spine exposing leaves, similar wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of wrappers, small c
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Film Culture, 1962. Softcover quarto, perfect bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 93 pp. Very good, wear and rubbing to ends of spine exposing leaves, similar wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of wrappers, small closed tear at tail of cover at binding, light soiling to wrappers. On the cover: François Truffaut shooting "Jules et Jim". Co-founder of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City, Film Culture magazine was the print arm for the godfather of Avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas. The magazine ran for 80 issues from 1954 until 1996. This issue, #24, features a dedication essay "To Maya Deren" by Rudolf Arnheim; "Fourth Independent Film Award" presented to Stan Brakhage for his films The Dead and Prelude; "Notes on the New American Cinema" by Jonas Mekas; "The Deep Frozen Eye of God (Notes Towards a Social Surrealist Manifesto)" by Richard Preston; "Cinematic and Literary Stylistic Figures" by Pier Paolo Pasolini; "Making a Film is My Way of Life" by Michelangelo Antonioni; interviews with Antonioni and Buñuel; caricatures by Gretchen Weinberg; more.
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- Seller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 480
- Title
- Film Culture
- Author
- Jonas Mekas (editor)
- Illustrator
- On the cover: François Truffaut shooting "Jules et Jim"
- Format/Binding
- Softcover quarto, perfect bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 93 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, wear and rubbing to ends of spine exposing leaves, similar wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of wrappers, small c
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Film Culture
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Film, Anthology Film Archives, Film-makers Co-op, Film Culture, Jonas Mekas, Parker Tyler, Lewis Jacobs, New York City, Avant-garde, Avant-garde cinema, Experimental film, Maya Deren, Rudolf Arnheim, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Social Surrealist Mani
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Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Wrappers
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