Word: speculare
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...brought to bear the history of abstract intellection in vivisecting the codes and conventions of bourgeois narrative film-making, Stan Brakhage has trans substantiated the history of abstract expressionism in creating an answer to the basic question "What is cinema?" Although academic film communities have identified with the analytical "specular text" -- the examining, form-destroying discourses -- of Godard and sentimentally embraced the "naive texts" of nostalgic cultural mythology, for example formula movies of unrestricted genres, Brakhage and the New American Film Movement he leads have been unappreciated by the academic eyes of verbal bigotry...
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