[Frameworks] Book Announcement: Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980

[Adam Hyman]

I have the Table of Contents as PDF and can email to anyone interested.

Best,

Adam


On 3/19/15 8:05 AM, "director at lift.on.ca" <director at lift.on.ca> wrote:

> Congrats.
I may be missing it, but I haven't been able to discover a table
> of
contents or list of contributors on either website. Can you share
> that?

Thanks!
Chris

> Announcement!
>
> I©öm working on finding more places
> to buy it than Amazon, starting with
> Los
> Angeles area bookstores &
> museums.  If I learn more online sellers, I will
> pass on the word.
>
> Best
> regards,
>
> Adam
>
> ------------------------
>
> Alternative Projections
>
> Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
> edited by David E. James and
> Adam Hyman
> Indiana University Press
>
>
> http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_7487&products_id=
>
> 807551
>
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0861967151/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&
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> BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -
>
> Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a>
> ground-breaking anthology of texts and images concerning cinema in Los
>
> Angeles in the post-World War II era.
>
> The growing recognition that Los
> Angeles has been the among the most
> important centers for avant-garde,
> experimental, and minority filmmaking
> has
> provided the ground for a number
> of recent historiographical, curatorial,
> and institutional initiatives.
> Chief among these was an extended
> collaborative project undertaken by Los
> Angeles Filmforum, an independent
> screening organization that has existed
> continuously since 1975, together
> with the Getty Foundation©ös Pacific
> Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles
> 1945-1980, and the University of Southern
> California©ös School of Cinematic
> Arts and its Arts and Humanities
> Initiative, ©øVisions and Voices.©÷ The
> first
> result of an initial research
> project was a three-day symposium featuring
> scholarly presentations,
> screenings, and discussions with filmmakers held
> at
> USC in November 2010,
> followed the next year by a screening series of some
> three hundred films and
> videos, many of them newly discovered and/or
> restored by the Academy Film
> Archive.. Concurrently Filmforum undertook an
> archival research project
> consisting of nearly forty videotaped and
> transcribed oral histories
> conducted with filmmakers, while developing a
> database with extensive
> records of independent films, filmmakers, and
> screenings in Los Angeles
> .
>
> Alternative Projections includes reprints of rare historical documents
> by
> and about experimental filmmakers in the region, the conference papers
>
> together with specifically commissioned essays, an account of the
>
> screening
> series, and other photographs and ephemera. With contributions
> from
> scholars, graduate students, archivists, curators, and filmmakers
> from
> three
> continents, the resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection
> radically
> extends film historiography. It is of great importance, not simply
> for its
> relevance to Los Angeles, but also for its general discoveries and
>
> projections about alternative cinemas.
>
> Visit the companion website and
> film database for Alternative Projections:
>
> http://www.alternativeprojections.com
>
> Editor Information
> David E. James
> is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the
> University of
> Southern California. His books include The Most Typical
> Avant-Garde: History
> and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.
>
> Adam Hyman has been
> Executive Director and Programmer for Los Angeles
> Filmforum since 2003. A
> documentary filmmaker, he has produced and/or
> written a variety of
> historical and archeological films that have aired on
> PBS, the History
> Channel, the Learning Channel, and others.
>
> Book
>
> Information‹----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Alternative
> Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
> edited by David E.
> James and Adam Hyman
> Co-published with John Libbey Publisher
> 320 pages, 57
> b&w illus., 6 x 9
> Paper, ISBN 978-0-86196-715-5 $40.00 ¡Ì29.99
> Publication
> Date:  March 13, 2015
> To order: call 1-800-842-6796 or log onto
> http://iupress.indiana.edu
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> Halter, Publicity Coordinator, thalter at indiana.edu
>
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>
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