The Films of Bill Morrison

Aesthetics of the Archive

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Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath

Type: Film Reviews
Subject: Director > Bill Morrison
Keywords: Bill Morrison, experimental
Publishing date: 2025 (December 01, 2025)
Publisher: Routledge
Collection: Framing Film
1st publishing: 2018
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 298 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-04-118785-1

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Book Presentation:
Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison has been making films that combine archival footage and contemporary music for decades, and he has recently begun to receive substantial recognition: he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, and his 2002 film Decasia was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career. It gathers specialists throughout film studies to explore Morrison's aesthetics of the archive-his creative play with archival footage and his focus on the materiality of the medium of film.

About the Author:
Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Publications include: The Films of Bill Morrison (AUP 2017), Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2020), and Concepts (Bloomsbury 2022). He is (with Patricia Pisters) the main-editor of the series thinking

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