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Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement

Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement

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Shirley Clarke's Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on her work as a dancer turned multi-award-winning editor and director of dancefilm, fiction, documentary, and video art, offering insight into her creative oeuvre and a novel method for analysis of films, filmmaking practices, and cultures of film production.

Format: Hardback
Length: 199 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press


Shirley Clarke's Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on the pioneering filmmaker Shirley Clarke and her edited and directed films. It combines film analysis, archival research, dance and film theory, and creative practice expertise to explore Clarke's work as a dancer-turned-award-winning editor and director of dance films, fiction, documentaries, and video art. This account of Clarke's creative oeuvre offers valuable insights into her overlooked filmmaking career. Its creative practice and distributed cognition framework provide tools for challenging exclusionary aspects of authorship theories and offer a novel method for analyzing films, filmmaking practices, and film production cultures.


Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399501439

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