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A CINEMA OF ANXIETY: AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM IN THE
REALM OF ART (1965–75)
by
Carlos Kase
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CRITICAL STUDIES)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Carlos Kase
Object Description
| Title | A cinema of anxiety: American experimental film in the realm of art (1965–75) |
| Author | Kase, Carlos |
| Author email | kase@usc.edu; carloskase@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-07-24 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-10-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | James, David E. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lippit, Akira Mizuta Troy, Nancy J. |
| Abstract | Contrary to the dominant narratives of art history, experimental cinema once played a meaningful role in American art. The filmic works discussed in this dissertation devised fresh modes of authorship and experimentation involving chance, collaboration, and interpersonal provocation that were as modern and innovative as those used in any art form. In this project experimental cinema is thus situated in close conceptual and historical proximity to other kinds of advanced art practice – including performance, video, assemblage, and installation art – that aggravated representational, artistic, ethical, and spectatorial anxieties, while challenging conventional divisions between art and media forms. By creating works that were often hostile and aggressive, these filmmakers attempted to undermine the smooth flows of information and entertainment that dominated the United States in the waning years of film’s significance as the nation’s dominant mass medium.; Through its consideration of selected works by multi-faceted, multi-media artists including Robert Breer, Andy Warhol, Shirley Clarke, Nam June Paik, Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, and Paul Sharits, this study argues that an interdisciplinary strategy provides the most effective means for understanding the intermedial art environment that defined avant-garde cultural production in the wake of Abstract Expressionism. In its aversion to conventional divisions between artists’ film, avant-garde film, and non-fiction film, this project thus attempts to reintegrate celluloid-based, experimental moving image works into the multifarious cultural, social, and historical networks that produced them and even, for a brief moment, made them popular. Despite its fleeting presence in the popular mindset of the late 1960s, experimental cinema never realized its promise as a transformational influence on the overall field of American art: it did not gain the economic support of gallery culture or the intellectual esteem of art history. Because of its interstitial identity, provocative mode of address, and distinctive ontological challenges to representation, it was an anxious object then, and in critical hindsight remains so.; This dissertation argues that the anxieties surrounding avant-garde art – related to its function as a mechanism for undermining conventional notions of pleasure, ethics, and craft – are not only central to experimental cinema, but may in significant ways, define it. |
| Keyword | avant-garde film; experimental film; avant-garde cinema; experimental cinema; non-fiction film; art history |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1965/1975 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2642 |
| Rights | Kase, Carlos |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kase-3268 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume56/etd-Kase-3268.pdf |
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| Full text | A CINEMA OF ANXIETY: AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM IN THE REALM OF ART (1965–75) by Carlos Kase A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Carlos Kase |
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