Perhaps the twelve-volume *The Griffith Project* edited by Paolo Cherchi
Usai could be a serious candidate?
Christian
2012/5/19 Jonathan Walley wall...@denison.edu
David Bordwell's book on Ozu is a towering achievement. And it's available
for free pdf download here:
https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/facultyseries/list/series/ozu.php
In a very different way, Bazin's book on Renoir. The French Renoir
(Chapter 5) is perhaps the best, most complete, and most sophisticated
statement of Bazin's aesthetic. Some of its passages are pure poetry, too.
Not so many books on avant-garde/experimental filmmakers come to mind.
Lots of essay collections dedicated to a single filmmaker (e.g. the recent
book on Ken Jacobs), but fewer sustained, book-length efforts. Several on
Warhol, of course, but it's practically impossible to cover his total body
of film work. JJ Murphy's recent THE BLACK HOLE OF THE CAMERA comes
closest, and I highly recommend it.
Jonathan
Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor of Cinema
Denison University
On May 18, 2012, at 9:50 PM, John MacKay wrote:
On May 18, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote:
I’m sure you filled in the missing word, but it bugs me to leave it
uncorrected:
Friends,
What would you cite as the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever
written about the form and content of one filmmaker’s *total *body of
work?
Not sure: Charlie Musser's BEFORE THE NICKELODEON (on Porter)? Tom
Gunning's FILMS OF FRITZ LANG? Interesting question….
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