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Stan Brakhage bibliography

A selection of English-language references on Stan Brakhage, published between the late 1970s and 2002.

For earlier material, including biographical information, film synopses, and writings about and by Brakhage, consult the bibliography by Barrett and Brabner (see list).

The many newspaper obituaries and tributes to Brakhage which have appeared on the internet are comprehensively collected on Fred Camper’s excellent web site. The site also covers online writings on Brakhage and his films, writings by Brakhage, and interviews with him.

While most documents listed are journal articles, books and Ph.D. theses are also included.

Arthur, Paul. "The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him." Film Comment 36, no. 3 (May-June) (2000) : 72.

------. "Qualities of Light: Stan Brakhage and the Continuing Pursuit." Film Comment 31, no. 5 (1995) : 68-76.

------. "Structural Film: Revisions, New Versions, and the Artifact." Millennium Film Journal 2, no. Spring-Summer (1978) : 5-13.

------. "Structural Film: Revisions, New Versions, and the Artifact. Part Two." Millennium Film Journal 4/5, no. Summer-Fall (1979) : 122-34.

Barr, W. R. "Brakhage: Artistic Development in Two Childbirth Films." Film Quarterly 3, no. Spring (1976) : 30-34.

Barrett, Gerald R., and Wendy Brabner. Stan Brakhage: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G.K.Hall, 1983.

Brakhage, S. Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings, 1964-1980. Edited by Robert A. Haller. New Paltz, N.Y.: Documentext, 1982.

------. Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Filmmaking. Edited by Bruce R. Mcpherson. Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson, 2001.

------. "Geometric Versus Meat-Ineffable." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 47-51.

------. "Introductory Essay Beginning with ‘There Are Many Living Poets Who Inspire My Work...’" Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 38-41.

------. "Stan Brakhage at Millenium." Millennium Film Journal 16/17/18, no. Fall/Winter (1986/87) : 297-307.

Brakhage, Stan, and P. Adams Sitney. Metaphors on Vision. 2nd ed. [United States: s.n.], 1976.

Camhi, G. "Notes on Brakhage's '23rd Psalm Branch.'" Film Culture 67/68/69 (1979) : 97-129.

Camper, Fred. "Brakhage's Contradictions." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 69-96.

------. "Film: The Front Line." Millennium Film Journal 14/15, no. Fall/Winter (1984/85) : 48-56.

------. "Sexual Meditation 1: Motel, a Film by Stan Brakhage." Film Culture 53/54/55, no. Spring (1972) : 101-104.

Christie, Ian. "The Rules of the Game." Sight and Sound ns12, no. 9, Sept (2002) : 24-27.

Cohen, P. "Brakhage's Sincerity III." Millennium Film Journal 4/5, no. Summer-Fall (1979) : 153-156.

Cohen, P. "Brakhages I, II, and III." Millennium Film Journal 7/8/9, no. Fall-Winter (1980/81) : 234-237.

Davenport, Guy. "Brakhage's Songs (First Printed in Film Culture 40, 1966) ." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 157-163.

Davis, Susan Shibe. "Creative Composing: The Verbal Art of Rita Dove, the Visual Art of Stephen Davis and the Filmic Art of Stanley Brakhage." PH.D. thesis, Arizona State University, 1994.

Dorsky, Nathaniel. "Stan Brakhage: Four Silent Nights." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 192.

Elder, Bruce. The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.

Field, S. "Creation." Monthly Film Bulletin 626, no. Mar (1986) : 93-94.

------. "In the American Vein." Monthly Film Bulletin 625, no. Feb (1986) : 60-62.

------. "Scenes from under Childhood: Section 1." Monthly Film Bulletin 626, no. Mar (1986) : 94.

Friedberg, Anne. "Misconception = the 'Division of Labor' in the Childbirth Film." Millennium Film Journal 5, no. Summer/Fall (1979) : 64-70.

Ganguly, Suranjan. "Stan Brakhage - the 60th Birthday Interview." Film Culture 78, no. Summer (1994) : 18-38.

Ganguly, Suranjan, and Stan Brakhage. "All That Is Light - Brakhage at 60 (an Interview with Experimental Film-Maker Stan Brakhage) ." Sight & Sound 3, no. 10 (1993) : 20-23.

Goslawski, Barbara. "Experimental." Take One 22, no. Winter (1999) : 47.

Grauer, V. A. "Brakhage and the Theory of Montage." Millennium Film Journal 32/33, no. Fall (1998) : 105-129.

Harvey, Dennis. "Brakhage." Variety 12, no. Feb 8 (1999) : 80.

Higgens, Gary, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, and Thomas Connick. "Grisled Roots: An Interview with Stan Brakhage." Millennium Film Journal 26, no. Fall (1992) : 56-66.

James, David E. "The Film-Maker as Romantic Poet: Brakhage and Olson." Film Quarterly 3, no. Spring (1982) : 35-42.

Jenkins, Bruce, and Noël Carroll. "'Text of Light'." Film Culture 67/68/69 (1979) : 135-138.

Jones, E. "Locating Truth in Film, 1940-1980." Post Script 1, no. Fall (1986) : 53-65.

Joyard, Olivier, Patrice Blouin, and Olivier Assayas. "New York Underground." Cahiers du Cinéma 558, no. June (2001) : 66-77.

Keller, Marjorie. "Murder Psalm." Film Quarterly 3, no. Spring (1984) : 49-57.

------. The Untutored Eye : Childhood in the Films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage. Rutherford: NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.

------. "The Theme of Childhood in the Films of Jean Cocteau, Joseph Cornell, and Stan Brakhage (France, United States) ." Ph.D. thesis, New York University, 1982.

Kelly, Robert. "Notes on Brakhage." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 164-170.

Levoff, D. H. "Brakhage's the Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes." Film Culture 56/57, no. Spring (1973) : 73-81.

McClure, Michael, and Steve Anker. "Realm Buster: Stan Brakhage." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 171-180.

Michelson, Annette. "Where Is Your Rupture? Mass Culture and the Gesamtkunstwerk." October, no. 56 (1991) : 42-63.

Nesthus, Marie. "A Crucible of Document: The Sequence Films of Stan Brakhage, 1968-1984." Ph.D. thesis, New York University, 1999.

------. "The "Document" Correspondence of Stan Brakhage." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 133-16.

------. "The Influence of Olivier Messiaen on the Visual Art of Stan Brakhage in 'Scenes from under Childhood', Part One." Film Culture 63/64 (1977) : 39-50.

O'Pray, Michael. "Dog Star Man." Monthly Film Bulletin 595, no. Aug (1983) : 203.

------. "Sincerity Reels 1, 2, 3." Monthly Film Bulletin 625, no. Feb (1986) : 63.

Prevallet, Kristin. "Angels in the Apparatus." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 187-91.

Pruitt, John. "Stan Brakhage and the Long Reach of Maya Deren's Poetics of Film." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 116-132.

Rayns, Tony. "Desistfilm." Monthly Film Bulletin 494, no. Mar (1975) : 69.

Rees, A. L. "Hell Spit Flexion." Monthly Film Bulletin 609, no. Oct (1984) : 322.

------. "Murder Psalm." Monthly Film Bulletin 625, no. Feb (1986) : 63.

------. "Tortured Dust." Monthly Film Bulletin 626, no. Mar (1986) : 86-87.

------. "Unconscious London Strata." Monthly Film Bulletin 626, no. Mar (1986) : 94-95.

Reeves, Jennifer. "Argument for the Immediate Sensuous: Notes on Stately Mansions Did Decree and Coupling." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 193-198.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes." Monthly Film Bulletin 625, no. Feb (1986) : 62.

Sharrett, Christopher. "Any Fool Can See for Himself: Notes on Brakhage's Scrapbook." Millennium Film Journal 14/15, no. Fall/Winter (1984/85) : 23-27.

------. "Brakhage's Dreamscape." Millennium Film Journal 6, no. Spring (1980) : 43-49.

Simmons, Kenith Levicoff. "Old Maids and the Domination of the Sea: Robert Duncan, Stan Brakhage and Robert Kelly on the Self in Context." Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1978.

Sitney, P. Adams. "Autobiography in Avant-Garde Film." Millennium Film Journal 1, no. Winter (1977/78) : 60-105.

------. "Circles of Confusion." Millennium Film Journal 14/15, no. Fall/Winter (1984/85) : 7-13.

------. Film Culture Reader. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press, 2000.

------. "Tales of the Tribes." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 97-115.

Steinhoff, Erik. "Introductory Essay Beginning with ‘over the Past Fifty Years Stan Brakhage Has Forcefully Expanded the Boundaries of Film...’" Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 5-8.

------. "Stan Brakhage: Correspondences." Chicago Review 47, no. 4 (2001) : 11-37.

Taylor, G. T. "'The Cognitive Instrument in the Service of Revolutionary Change': Sergei Eisenstein, Annette Michelson, and the Avant-Garde's Scholarly Aspiration." Cinema Journal 4, no. Summer (1992) : 42-59.

Tuchman, Mitch. "The Mekas Bros. Brakhage & Baillie Traveling Circus." Film Comment 2, no. Mar-Apr (1978) : 9-18.

Walker, Jesse. "Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man Show." Reason 32, no. 9 (2001) : 62.

Wees, William C. "Words and Images in Stan Brakhage's 23rd Psalm Branch." Cinema Journal 2, no. Winter (1988) : 40-49.

Weiss, Allen S. "An Eye for an I: On the Art of Fascination." SubStance: a review of theory and literary criticism, no. 51 (1986) : 87-95.

The electronic resources used in compiling this list:

Art Abstracts

Current Contents

Dissertation Abstracts International

Expanded Academic ASAP

FIAF (International Film Archive Database)

Film Index International

MLA International Bibliography

Philosopher’s Index

Proquest: Academic Research Library

Val Forbes, Borchardt Library, May 2003

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