from amazon:
The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writer’s thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer also explores Mailer’s cinema through previously published and newly commissioned essays written by an array of film and literary scholars, enthusiasts, and those with a personal, philosophical connection to Mailer. This volume discusses the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and filmmaker’s six films created during the years of 1947 and 1987, and contends to show how Mailer’s films can be best read as cinematic delineations that visually represent many of the writer’s metaphysical and ontological concerns and ideas that appear in his texts from the 1950s until his passing in 2007. By re-examining Mailer’s cinema through these new perspectives, one may be awarded not just a deeper understanding of Mailer’s desire to make films, but also find a new, alternative vision of Mailer himself. Norman Mailer was not just a writer, but more: he was one of the most influential Postmodern artists of the twentieth century with deep roots in the cinema. He allowed the cinema to not only influence his aesthetic approach, but sanctioned it as his easiest-crafted analogy for exploring sociological imagination in his writing. Mailer once suggested, “Film is legitimately more interesting than books…” and with that in mind, readers of Norman Mailer might begin to rethink his oeuvre through the viewfinder of the film medium, as he was equally as passionate about working within cinema as he was about literature itself.

https://nitro.download/view/50639F93FE41F50/Cinema_of_Norman_Mailer.pdf

Language(s):English

many thanks to @Justin Bozung for this pdf

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A stasis work invoking the memory of the lynching of Mary Turner, a young, pregnant African American woman in South Georgia in 1918.

Publicly demanding justice following the murder of her husband, Turner was kidnapped by a mob, hung up in a tree, set on fire, her child cut out and killed, and shot hundreds of times before being buried on site in South Georgia.

Within in origins of cinema–on the exact date and time of Turner’s lynching 105-years earlier–, Invocation uses form, time, light and shadows, movement, and landscape as as metaphor to not only invoke the memory of the lynched Mary Turner, but to also offer a change to examine our own perspective as it relates to the history of racial violence, violence against women, America’s failure to acknowledge our past, and the racial divide that continues to exist in the schizophrenia of America life today.

Invocation of Mary Turner, lynched on May 19, 1918.mp4

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	10 min 33 s
Size: 	3.02 GB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	3840x2160
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	30.000 fps
Bit rate: 	40.8 Mb/s
BPP: 	0.164
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/2781350C9AEB6C1/Invocation_of_Mary_Turner,_lynched_on_May_19,_1918.mp4

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Justin B. for this copy

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