Re The Art of the Moving Picture:

Here's a link to the essay "An American millenium:
Vachel Lindsay and the poetics of stargazing" in which
Laurence Goldstein takes up the points Hideo Nogami
brought to light in his posting:

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/classics/clas598/VLG.html


--- Nogami Hideo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Burt Hatlen;
>
> The Art of the Moving Picture, by Vachel Lindsay
> MacMillan 1915 and 1922
> reprint edition Liveright 1970
>
> is a very interesting book. I have not read it
> through but noticed
> several interesting points.
> The author proposes Imagist film, saying,
> "Poetry(Chicago) has given us
> a new sect: the Imagists...........
> The Imagists impulse need not be confined to
> verse......
> An Imagist film would offer a noble challenge
> to......"
> In other part, he says,"Caligari is undoubtedly the
> most
> important film since that work of D'Annunzio,
> Cabiria...."
> Cabiria is a film produced by D'Annunzio in1914.
> I do not know if Pound saw it. But could Pound have
> ignored D'Annunzio?
>
> Hideo Nogami
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the
> University of Maine
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Burt
> Hatlen
> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:29 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Pound and Movies
> >
> >
> > Pounders,
> >
> > I've been thinking about the parallels between
> Pound's poetics
> > and the film aesthetic of the 1920s, and I'm
> looking for
> > information on what movies Pound may have seen
> during this period
> > and what he might have thought/said about them.
> I'm also
> > looking for critical commentary on the
> relationship between
> > Pound's poetic methods and film technique. Kenner
> in The Pound
> > Era and Max Nanny in his book on Pound and the
> electronic age
> > mention that in developing his concept of
> "montage" Eisenstein
> > points to the Chinese ideogram as a model, and the
> analogy with
> > Pound's poetic method is obvious; but neither
> Kenner nor Nanny
> > explores the relationship between Pound's poetic
> methods and
> > actual films of the time.  Any tips would be much
> appreciated.
> >
> > Burt Hstlen
> >


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