Detail View: Stan Brakhage Collection: Stan Brakhage on Georges Méliès and Jean Cocteau - Part 1

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narv_#50-18Lecture10-6-75Begin1.mp3
Title: 
Stan Brakhage on Georges Méliès and Jean Cocteau - Part 1
Description: 
Stan Brakhage discusses his habit of chewing tobacco. He then discusses Georges Méliès and how filmmaking became a commercial business. Brakhage justifies showing a film of epileptic seizure in class and describes how artists either evolve or decay. Brakhage mentions how male-dominated the arts and society are. He tells a story regarding Ezra Pound and Charles Olson. Then Brakhage discusses Jean Cocteau and summarizes Cocteau's film 'Orphée.' Continued on 'Stan Brakhage on Georges Méliès and Jean Cocteau - Part 2.'
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Abstract
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00:00 Brakhage begins 11:37 Brakhage ends 11:38 Questions from the audience begin 43:09 Questions from the audience end 43:10 Brakhage begins 55:02 End
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SegmentSequence
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Course title: History of Film: "I as Eye" (Film and First Person Singular) - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Venue
Subject: 
Méliès, Georges, 1861-1938
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055178
Subject: 
Motion picture industry -- United States
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088052
Subject: 
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78097014
Subject: 
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095428
Subject: 
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007043
Subject: 
Orphée (Motion picture : 1950)
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017107953
Subject: 
Diseases in motion pictures
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005002707
Subject: 
Brakhage, Stan
Subject Type: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258
Source: 
narv_#50-18Lecture10-6-75Begin1
Creator: 
Brakhage, Stan
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017258
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Date: 
1975-10-06
Format Medium: 
audio/mp3
Language: 
English
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/sj6k3h34b3nz