| Journal: | Intexto (Porto Alegre) |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000508122 |
| ISSN: | 1807-8583 |
| Authors: | Valles, Rafael1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Season: | Ene-Abr |
| Number: | 48 |
| Pages: | 176-193 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Descriptivo |
| English abstract | This article will analyze the question of the amateur within the context of North-American avant-garde cinema, and the way in which the theoretical work of directors Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas has contributed for the elaboration of a poetics of this term. The analysis of this theme will be grounded on the following texts: Amateur Versus Professional (Deren, 1959), In Defense of Amateur (Brakhage, 1971), and The Changing Language of Cinema (Mekas, 1962). Our study will focus on the following aspects: socioeconomic, artistic, and technical. The article defends the position that these texts have a historical and theoretical importance on the term and contribute to understand its poetics |
| Portuguese abstract | Este artigo pretende analisar a questão do amateur no contexto do cinema de vanguarda norte-americano e de que forma as obras teóricas dos realizadores Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren e Jonas Mekas contribuíram para elaborar uma concepção poética sobre esse termo. A análise do tema será feita a partir dos seguintes textos: Amateur versus Profesional (Deren, 1959), In defense of amateur (Brakhage, 1971) e A linguagem mutante do cinema (Mekas, 1962). A metodologia estará centrada nos aspectos socioeconômico, artístico e técnico. O artigo defende a posição de que esses textos possuem uma importância histórica e teórica sobre o termo e contribuem para compreender a sua poética |
| Disciplines: | Ciencias de la comunicación, Arte |
| Keyword: | Cine, Estados Unidos de América, Vanguardia, Brakhage, Stan, Deren, Maya, Mekas, Jonas |
| Full text: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/intexto/article/view/92952/54026 |
