A collection of lectures delivered by Brahkhage while he was teaching at The Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1970s. Filmmakers discussed include: George Melies, D.W. Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Jean Vigo, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Alexender Dovzhenko, and a special lecture dedicated to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Special introductions to the text by Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Guy Davenport.
A collection of lectures delivered by Brahkhage while he was teaching at The Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1970s. Filmmakers discussed include: George Melies, D.W. Griffith, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Jean Vigo, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Alexender Dovzhenko, and a special lecture dedicated to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Special introductions to the text by Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Guy Davenport.