What Becomes of Things on Film on Film: Adaptation in Owen Land (George Landow)

摘要

The importance of adaptation in studies of the American structural film movement has been underestimated. Three works by Owen Land (George Landow) from the 1970s are analysed in depth: Remedial Reading Comprehension, Wide Angle Saxon, and On the Marriage Broker Joke in Sigmund Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, or, Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? Land's understanding of language and the language of cinema evolves towards a more post-structuralist account of meaning. His development parallels and complements that of Stanley Cavell in the same period.