Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers by Rutkoff, Rebekah
Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers by Rutkoff, Rebekah

Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers

A lavishly illustrated inside account of one of avant-garde film's most original outsiders, the filmmaker Robert Beavers....
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Author: Rebekah Rutkoff
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Language: English
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Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers by Rutkoff, Rebekah

Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers

$80.69
Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers by Rutkoff, Rebekah

Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers

$80.69
Author: Rebekah Rutkoff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A lavishly illustrated inside account of one of avant-garde film's most original outsiders, the filmmaker Robert Beavers.

Double Vision is a beautifully written work of biography and criticism that tells the inside story of Robert Beavers (b. 1949), a major American avant-garde filmmaker. Until now, Beavers's dramatic life of itinerancy and resistance to commercial circulation has obscured his recognition as one of today's most significant living filmmakers. In Double Vision, Rebekah Rutkoff, the first scholar to have full access to Beavers's writing archive, sheds light on this deeply original underground figure and reveals the way Beavers's films explore nonoptical seeing--awareness itself--as an outcome of cinematic sight.

Born in the United States, Beavers moved to Europe as a teenager with his partner, filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos, in 1967. Over the following decades, he developed a unique cinematic language that fuses spiritual aims with cultural critique and braids domestic and erotic self-portraiture with studies of colored light and his own filmmaking process. Rutkoff uses the concept of "double vision" as a means to explore the poetic feedback loop between Beavers's filmmaking and writing practices, examine his life story and art next to those of Markopoulos, and demonstrate how his films defy standard art historical genealogies and binary thought. Richly illustrated with compelling film stills, many never before seen, Rutkoff's account of the outsider artist stands as the most detailed, knowledgeable, and fully researched to date. Double Vision celebrates Beavers's singular achievement and promises to make him known to all those who have not yet encountered his work.

Author: Rebekah Rutkoff
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780262048767


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2024

About the Author
Rebekah Rutkoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. A New York-based writer, she is the author of The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions (Semiotext(e)) and the editor of a collection of essays by and about Robert Beavers.
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