Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema
Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema
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Abstract
As the first book-length study of Robert Frank’s work in film and video, Awakening the Eye provides a new account of the career of one of America’s most important twentieth-century artists. Keeping the dual nature of Frank’s career as a photographer-filmmaker in mind, each of the chapters pays particular attention to those instances when ideas and ways of working developed in one media leave their mark on another. By examining Frank’s films in the context of his more widely recognized photographic work, this study stands as a model of cross-media history in which film and photography are viewed not as divergent fields, but as complicit in their search for new forms of visual expression. Awakening the Eye is about the intricate material negotiations that define Frank’s engagement with photography, film and writing; it is also about the artist’s determination to forge a revealing and highly personal connection between the events and circumstances of his life and the material qualities of his work.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Awakening the Eye
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1
“Time and How to Note It Down”: Pull My Daisy
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2
He’s Not There: Me and My Brother, One Hour
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3
“A Better Way to Live”: Conversations in Vermont, Liferaft Earth, About Me: A Musical, Cocksucker Blues
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4
“The Fire of Pain”: Life Dances On …, Home Improvements, The Present
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5
Fragments Shored against My Ruins: Moving Pictures, True Story
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Coda
The Circle: Paper Route
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End Matter
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