{"product_id":"this-is-called-moving-abigail-child-9780817351601","title":"This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eExplores how two language systems inform and cross-fertilize the author's work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources, ranging from industrial films and documentaries to home movies, vacation photography, and snippets of old B movies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting collages and montages are cinematic narratives that have been consistently praised for their beauty and sense of wonder and delight in the purely visual. At the same time, Child's films are noted for their incisive political commentary on issues such as gender and sexuality, class, voyeurism, poverty, and the subversive nature of propaganda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the essays of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Called Moving, \u003c\/i\u003e Child draws on her long career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work. For Child, poetry and film are both potent means of representation, and by examining the parallels between them--words and frames, lines and shots, stanzas and scenes--she discovers how the two art forms re-construct and re-present social meaning, both private and collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abigail Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817351604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817351601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.36w x 0.85d","brand":"Abigail Child","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616369438975,"sku":"9780817351601","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40dfc4f8-bc1b-4552-99ea-37d69c8c13ef.jpg?v=1703019969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-called-moving-abigail-child-9780817351601","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}