METAPHORS ON VISION

First published in 1963 as a special issue of Film Culture, it stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinem as most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as hi s art. By turns lyrical, technical, and philosophical, this is a collection to be shelved alongside the commentaries of Robert Bress on and Maya Deren, Sergei Eisenstein and Nagisa Oshima. Yet despite its historical importance and undeniable influence, the complete Metaphor...[Read more]