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Maya Deren's corpus of work, which has been given various designations within the American avant-garde filmmaking practice of the 1940's and 1950's, is analysed according to the historical conditions of conception and reception during her practice.
Influences on her theories in art and ethnography are noted through several historical discourses: the French Symbolist Poets, Henri Bergson, Kurt Koffka, T.S Eliot, Katherine Dunham, Alexander Hammid, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Campbell and Gregory Bateson; the synthesis of these ideas within her films are noted.
Three major areas, the poetic, the political and the primitive are used as components of an anagrammatic complex to demonstrate the theory and practice of her work as an artist in flux between dominant representational practices in film and ethnography.
Deren's major theoretical essay, "An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film" introduced the basic structure of her ideas ( nowhere previously analyzed)
An analysis of her six completed films and work in progress are approached through a 'genetic tracing' of shooting scripts, releases and historical contexualizations.Her Work with choreocinema and ritual are examined as an epistemological break in film form within the avant garde.
"The Poetic" contextualizes key influences behind her use of the poetic idiom in film;
"The Political" examines Deren's production, distribution, exhibition and articulation of film in periodicals and lecture-demonstrations;
"The Primitive" focuses on Deren's literal and visual contributions to an understanding of Haitian Voudoun including her participant-observation in a Port-au-Prince hounfor (temple). ]
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Look, let's be brief. If you already know a lot about West African religion or its New World variants, and if you want a detailed analysis in a non-standard anthropological form, then this could be a five star book for you. Her passion, her scholarship deserve five stars for sure. The best thing about the book is its insistence that Voudoun or Vodun is a rich, vital religion with ancient roots, so far from the caricature often imposed on "Voodoo" by Western popular culture. On the other hand, if you want to know more about Haitian society, if you are looking for an anthropological work that will give you some operating knowledge in Haiti or about Haiti, this volume is going to prove far too rich for your blood. Try some of the other works on Haiti first.
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