Peter Wollen's "Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film" (2002)






London, England and New York City, US: Verso (book, essays), 2002.
8" x 6" x 1", 314 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-85984-391-3.

Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen, as published by Verso (London, England and New York City, US) in 2002. A collection of Peter Wollen's essays on film.

This contains “Guerrilla Conditions: The Cinema of William Seward Burroughs”, pp. 25-38, a chapter on the films of William S. Burroughs, Antony Balch, and Brion Gysin.

Contents:

  • An Alphabet of Cinema (introduction)
  • Part I: Directors and Film-Makers:
    • Guerrilla Conditions: The Cinema of William Seward Burroughs
    • Viking Eggeling
    • Who the Hell Is Howard Hawks?
    • Hitch: A Tale of Two CIties (London and Los Angeles)
    • JLG
    • Jean Rouch
  • Part II: Films and Movements:
    • Freud as Adventurer
    • Blade Runner
    • Spies and Spivs: An Anglo-Austrian Entanglement
    • Rules of the Game
    • The Last New Wave
    • Riff-Raff Realism
  • Part III: Themes and Styles:
    • Architecture and Film: Places and Non-Places
    • The Canon
    • Time in Film and Video Art
    • Mismatches (& Acousmètres)
    • Back to the Future
    • Speed and the Cinema
  • Notes
  • Film-makers/Directors Index
  • Filmography
  • General Index

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