''He was famously quarrelsome, so an anthology of his correspondence might be…well, “entertaining”?''
2016-02-22 17:27 GMT-04:00 Chuck Kleinhans <[email protected]>: > Perhaps the editor/publisher wanted a broader range of essays than Gidal > alone might have preferred. > > But hey, he’s still alive, right? Why not ask him? > > He was famously quarrelsome, so an anthology of his correspondence might > be…well, “entertaining”? > > > Chuck Kleinhans > > > On Feb 22, 2016, at 9:14 AM, John Muse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Jonathan. Right, to his credit, Gidal "curates" in the conflict > with Snow over "Back and Forth." Love that. > > The Michelson excerpt includes the line that seems to offend him most: > "Snow has re-defined filmic space as that of action." Strange that he > doesn't include the exchange of letters. Maybe he wanted to but was denied > rights? > > j > > On Feb 22, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Walley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting question. Keep in mind that Gidal also included and essay on > Ken Jacobs’ Tom Tom... (by Lois Mendelson and Bill Simon, also from > Artforum) that he (Gidal) expressly marked as “symptomatic of current > misunderstanding” and “fetishization of process and idealization of the > formal in its weak sense.” Vidal attributed the same “blindness” to the > film itself. So he was open to polemically including “bad” essays. > > He doesn’t include a similar note about the Michelson piece, though he > only includes an excerpt. Perhaps he found that excerpt less “wrongheaded” > than other passages in the essay. The entire Snow section of Structural > Film Anthology is on the polemical side, including the rather pissy letter > from Snow to Gidal in response to the latter’s comments about Back-Forth. > > Sort of an answer? > > Dr. Jonathan Walley > Associate Professor and Chair > Department of Cinema > Denison University > [email protected] > > > Chuck Kleinhans > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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