Talk:Film-poem

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The article says: "The film-poem (also called the poetic avant-garde film or verse-documentary) is a label historically applied to American avant-garde films released after World War II."

Any American avant-garde film post-WWII? And why are the only two examples given English films of the 1990's? --Dcfleck (talk) 12:27, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Dcfleck, I changed "historically" to "first" since it is a term that has evolved in application. There really is not a straightforward definition of this term, which made the topic difficult to cover. You can look up the book referenced in the article to see if you can extract more meaning. Check this out if you want to know more about it. As for the two films, I saw that these two used the term "film-poem", which did not have an article at the time. I talked with Dr.K. about creating the article, and he subsequently added the two to this article. Basically, film-poem as a topic and all its related examples have really just appeared on Wikipedia, so there is not much cross-linking yet. Feel free to edit to improve the article! Erik (talk | contribs) 13:31, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

I saw this discussion through the all-powerful notification system of Wikipedia (too powerful if you ask me). I have to agree with Erik. This is a brand-new article so it obviously has some imperfections and perhaps inconsistencies. More research is needed into the concept. Meanwhile I just saw an article on Video poetry. I wonder if they are related and by how much. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 13:37, 16 May 2013 (UTC)