Maya Deren
"Top and tailing" the set of essays on American filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961) in Maya Deren and the American avant-garde are Bill Nichols' introduction and Deren's own essay on film form, "An anagram of ideas on art, form and film" published in 1946. Nichols explains that the anagram structure of Deren's essay has informed the shape of his own volume and the contents page is laid out as Deren's is, encouraging readers to map overarching themes and ideas across discrete sections by following any number of suggested reading sequences. In her essay, Deren puts the concept of the anagram another way when describing a "simultaneity" of operations in life and "great art":
But man's great dream is to achieve a whole whose character is far more mysterious and miraculous that dynamic, living whole in which the inter-action of the parts produces more than their sum total in any sense. (13)
Whether or not this idea can be applied to Nichols' book is debatable, but the connections......
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