Experimental cinema : the film reader / edited by Wheeler Winston-Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

Author(s): Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950- | Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey

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Main Title
Experimental cinema : the film reader
Author(s)
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey
Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-
Publisher
London : Routledge, 2002
Collation
356 p. : ill.
24 cm.
ISBN
0415277876||9780415277877
Dewey Class
791.43611
Contents
Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema --
Part I. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959. The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak ; Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas ; The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz ; Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda --
Part II. The 1960s experimental cinema explosion. Pop, queer, or fascist? The ambiguity of mass culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising / Juan A. Suarez ; Stan Brakhage: the 60th birthday interview / Suranjan Ganguly ; The perfect queer appositeness of Jack Smith / Jerry Tartaglia ; An interviews with Carolee Schneemann / Kate Haug ; The Flower Thief: the "Film poem," Warhol's early films, and the beat writers / Reva Wolf ; Walking on thin ice: the films of Yoko Ono / Daryl Chin ; Yoko Ono on Yoko Ono / Yoko Ono --
Part III. Structuralism in the 1970s. Structural film / P. Adams Sitney ; Interview with Michael Snow / Scott MacDonald ; The films of Warren Sonbert / Philip Lopate ; Warren Sonbert interview / David Ehrenstein ; An interview with Hollis Frampton / Peter Gidal --
Part IV. Alternative cinemas, 1980-2000. Re/constructing lesbian auto/biographies in Tender Fictions and Nitrate Kisses / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster ; The films of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich / Chris Holmlund ; Black women's independent cinema / Gloria J. Gibson ; Dark and lovely too: Black gay men in independent film / Kobena Mercer.
Language
English
Subject
Experimental films -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
BRN
330

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