MacKenzie, Scott, 1967-
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2014.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-639) and index.
• Introduction: An invention without a future — The avant-garde(s). The futurist cinema / F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, et al. — Lenin decree / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin — The ABCs of cinema / Blaise Cendrars — WE: variant of a manifesto / Dziga Vertov — The method of making workers’ films / Sergei Eisenstein — Constructivism in the cinema / Alexei Gan — Preface: Un chien Andalou / Luis Buñuel — Manifesto of the surrealists concerning L’age d’or / The Surrealist Group — Manifesto on Que viva Mexico / The editors of Experimental film — Spirit of truth / Le Corbusier — An open letter to the film industry and to all who are interested in the evolution of the good film / László Moholy-Nagy — Light*Form*Movement*Sound / Mary Ellen Bute — Prolegomena for all future cinema / Guy Debord — No more flat feet! / Lettriste International — The Lettristes disavow the insulters of Chaplin / Jean-Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, and Gabriel Pomerand — The only dynamic art / Jim Davis — A statement of principles / Maya Deren — The first statement of the New American Cinema Group / New American Cinema Group — Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies / Ron Rice — from Metaphors on vision / Stan Brakhage — Kuchar 8mm film manifesto / George Kuchar — Film andepandan [independents] manifesto / Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. — Discontinuous films / Keewatin Dewdney — Hand-made films manifesto / Ubu Films, Thoms — Cinema manifesto / Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill — For a metahistory of film: commonplace notes and hypotheses / Hollis Frampton — Elements of the void / Gregory Markopoulos — Small gauge manifesto / JoAnn Eleam and Chuck Kleinhans — Cinema of transgression manifesto / Nick Zedd — Modern, all too modern / Keith Sanborn — Open letter to the Experimental Film Congress: let’s set the record straight / Peggy Ahwesh, Caroline Avery, et al. — Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto / Jonas Mekas — The decalogue / Jan Švankmajer — Your film f
• National and transnational cinemas. from The glass eye / Leo Longanesi — The Archers’ manifesto / Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger — What is wrong with Indian films? / Satyajit Ray — Buñuel the poet / Octavio Paz — French cinema is over / Serge Berna, Guy Debord, et al. — Some ideas on the cinema / Cesare Zavattini — A certain tendency in French cinema / François Truffaut — Salamanca manifesto & conclusions of the Congress of Salamanca / Juan Antonio Bardem — Free Cinema manifestos / Committee for Free Cinema — The Oberhausen manifesto / Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, et al. — Untitled [Oberhausen 1965] / Jean-Marie Straub, Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, et al. — The Mannheim declaration / Joseph von Sternberg, Alexander Kluge, et al. — Sitges manifesto / Manuel Revuelta, Antonio Artero, Joachin Jordà, and Julián Marcos — How to make a Canadian film / Guy Glover — How to not make a Canadian film / Claude Jutra — from The estates general of the French cinema, May 1968 / Thierry Derocles, Michel Demoule, Claude Chabrol, and Marin Karmitz — Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement / Arun Kaul and Mrinal Sen — What is to be done? / Jean-Luc Godard — The Winnipeg manifesto / Denys Arcand, Colin Low, Don Shebib, et al. — Hamburg declaration of German filmmakers / Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, et al. — Manifesto I Manifesto II Manifesto III: I confess! / Lars von Trier — The cinema we need / R. Bruce Elder — Pathways to the establishment of a Nigerian film industry / Ola Balogun — Manifesto of 1988 / Young DEFA Filmmakers — In praise of a poor cinema / Colin McArthur — Dogme ’95 manifesto and vow of chastity / Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg — I sinema manifesto / Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. –
• Third Cinemas, colonialism, decolonization, and postcolonialism. Manifesto of the New Cinema Group / El grupo nuevo cine — Cinema and underdevelopment / Fernando Birri — The aesthetics of hunger / Glauber Rocha — For an imperfect cinema / Julio García Espinosa — Towards a Third Cinema: notes and experiences for the development of a cinema of liberation in the Third World / Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino — Film makers and the popular government political manifesto / Comité de cine de la unidad popular — Consciousness of a need / Mario Handler — Militant cinema: an internal category of Third Cinema / Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas — For Colombia 1971: militancy and cinema / Carlos Alvarez — The cinema: another face of colonised Québec / Association professionnelle des cinéastes du Québec — 8 millimeters verus 8 millions / Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. — Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group / Palestinian Cinema Group — Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers meeting / Fernando Birri, Ousmane Sembène, Jorge Silva, et al. — The Luz e Ação manifesto / Carlos Diegues, Glauber Rocha, et al. — Problems of form and content in revolutionary cinema / Jorge Sanjinés — Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers / Paul Leduc, Jorge Fons, et al. — The Algiers charter on African cinema / FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) — Declaration of principles and goals of the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema / Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema — What is the cinema for us? / Med Hondo — Naimey manifesto of African filmmakers / FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) — Black independent filmmaking: a statement by the Black Audi Film Collective / John Akomfrah — from Birth certificate of the International School of Cinema and Television in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, nicknamed the School of Three Worlds / Fernando Birri — FeCAViP manifesto / Federati
• Gender, feminist, queer, sexuality, and porn manifestos. Woman’s place in photoplay production / Alice Guy-Blaché — Hands off love / Maxime Alexandre, Louis Aragon, et al. — The perfect filmic appositeness of Maria Montez / Jack Smith — On Film no. 4 (In taking the bottoms of 365 saints of our time) / Yoko Ono — Statement / Kenneth Anger — Wet Dream Film Festival manifesto / S.E.L.F. (Sexual Egalitarianism and Libertarian Fraternity) — Women’s cinema as counter-cinema / Claire Johnston — Manifesto for a non-sexist cinema / FECIP (Fédération européenne du cinéme progressiste) — Womanifesto / Feminists in the Media — Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey — An egret in the porno swamp: notes of sex in the cinema / Vilgot Sjöman — For the self-expression of the Arab woman / Heiny Srour, Salma Baccar, and Magda Wassef — Manifesto of the Women Filmmakers / Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen — Wimmin’s Fire Brigade / Wimmin’s Fire Brigade — Thoughts on women’s cinema: eating words, voicing struggles / Yvonne Rainer — The post porn modernist manifesto / Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, et al. — Statement of African women professionals of cinema, television and video / FEPACI (Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes) — Puzzy power manifesto: thoughts on women and pornography / Vibeke Windeløv, Lene Børglum, et al. — Cinema with tits / Icíar Bollaín — My porn manifesto / Ovidie — No more Mr. Nice Gay: a manifesto / Todd Verow — Barefoot filmmaking manifesto / Sally Potter — Dirty diaries manifesto / Mia Engberg –
• Militating Hollywood. Code to govern the making of talking, synchronized and silent motion pictures (Motion Picture Production Code) / Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America — Red films: Soviets spreading doctrine in U.S. theatres / William Randolph Hearst — Statement of principles / Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals — Screen guide for Americans / Ayn Rand — White elephant art vs. termite art / Manny Farber — Super fly: a summary of objections by the Kuumba Workshop / Kuumba Workshop — Full frontal manifesto / Steven Soderbergh –
• The creative treatment of actuality. Towards a social cinema / Jean Vigo — from First principles of documentary / John Grierson — Manifesto on the documentary film / Oswell Blakeston — Declaration of the Group of Thirty / Jean Painlevé, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alain Resnais, et al. — Initial statement of the Newsreel / New York Newsreel — Nowsreel, or the potentialities of a political cinema / Robert Kramer, New York Newsreel — Documentary filmmakers make their case / Bohdan Kosiński, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Tomasz Zygadło — The Asian Filmmakers at Yamagato YIDFF manifesto / Kidlat Tahimik, Stephen Teo, et al. — Minnesota declaration: truth and fact in documentary cinema / Werner Herzog — Defocus manifesto / Lars von Trier — Kill the documentary as we know it / Jill Godmilow — Ethnographic Cinema (EC): a manifesto / Jay Ruby — Reality cinema manifesto / Vitaly Manskiy — Documentary manifesto / Albert Maysles — China Independent Film Festival manifesto: Shamans * Animals / by several documentry filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival –
• States, dictatorships, the comintern, and theocracies. Capture the film! hints on the use of, out of the use of, proletarian film propaganda / Willi Münzenberg — The Legion of Decency pledge / Archbishop John McNicholas — Creative film / Joseph Goebbels — Vigilanti cura: on motion pictures / Pope Pius XI — Four cardinal points of A revolução de Maio / António Lopes Ribeiro — from On the art of cinema / Kim Jong-il –
• Archives, museums, festivals, and cinematheques. A new source of history: the creation of a depository for historical cinematography / Bolesław Matuszewski — The film prayer / A.P. Hollis — The Film Society / Iris Barry — Filmliga manifesto / Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, men’no Ter Bbaak, et al. — Statement of purposes / Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 — The importance of film archives / Ernest Lindgren — A plea for a Canadian film archive / Hye Bossin — Open letter to film-makers of the world / Jonas Mekas — A declaration from the Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française / Committee for the Defense of La Cinémathèque française — Filmmakers versus the Museum of Modern Art / Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow — Anthology Film Archives manifesto / P. Adams Sitney — Toward an ethnographic film archive / Alan Lomax — Brooklyn Babylon Cinema manifesto / Scott Miller Berry and Stephen Kent Jusick — Don’t throw film away: the FIAF 70th anniversary manifesto / Hisashi Okajima and La fédération internationale des archives du film Manifesto Working Group — The Lindgren manifesto: the film curator of the future / Paolo Cherchi Usai — Film festival form: a manifesto / Mark Cousins –
• Sounds and silence. A statement on sound / Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov — A rejection of the talkies / Charlie Chaplin — A dialogue on sound: a manifesto / Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun — Amalfi manifesto / Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. –
• The digital revolution. Culture: intercom and expanded cinema: a proposal and manifesto / Stan VanDerBeek — The digital revolution and the future cinema / Samira Makhmalbaf — The pluginmanifesto / Ana Kronschnabl — Digital dekalogo: a manifesto for a filmless Philippines / Khavn de la Cruz –
• Aesthetics and the futures of the cinema. The birth of the sixth art / Ricciotto Canudo — The birth of a new avant garde: La caméra-stylo / Alexandre Astruc — from Preface to film / Raymond Williams — The snakeskin / Ingmar Bergman — Manifesto / Roberto Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass, et al. — Manifesto on the release of La chinoise / Jean-Luc Godard — Direct action cinema manifesto / Rob Nilsson — Remodernist film manifesto / Jesse Richards — The age of amateur cinema will return / Jia Zhangke — Appendix. What is a manifesto film ?

Subjects:

• Motion pictures — Philosophy.

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