[Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US

[fred truniger]

most of them 'special interest' but still histories of the Avant-Garde 
in the US
MacDonald, Scott: The Garden in the Machine. A Field Guide to 
Independent Films About Place. Berkeley 2001.
Wees, William C: Recycled Images. New York 1993.
Brakhage, Stan: Film at Wit's End. New York 1989.
Mellencamp, Patricia: Indiscretions. Avant-Garde Film, Video, & 
Feminism. 1990.
Iles, Chrissie: Into the Light. The Projected Image in American Art 
1964-1977. New York 2001.
Turim, Maureen Cheryn: Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films. Ann Arbor 1985.
Michelson, Annette: New Forms in Film. Montreux 1974.
Michelson, Annette: artforum (special issue). September 1971.
Balsom, Erika: Exhibiting Art in Contemporary Cinema. Amsterdam 
University Press, Amsterdam 2013.

maybe also
Le Grice, Malcolm: Abstract Film and Beyond. London 1977.

cheers, fred


Am 29.01.15 um 20:24 schrieb Robert Haller:
> Crossroads: Avant-Garde film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, by Robert 
> Haller, Anthology Film Archives, 2005
> First Light: Abstract Light Forms, edited by Robert Haller, Anthology 
> Film Archives, 1998
> -- R. Haller
>
> From: Andy Ditzler <andy at andyditzler.com <mailto:andy at andyditzler.com>>
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>
> Steve Anker, et al, Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the 
> San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000
> Bart Testa, Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde
> A. L. Rees et al, Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film
> Robin Blaetz, Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks
> Scott MacDonald's edited volumes of primary documents on Art in Cinema 
> and Cinema 16
> Robert Pike, A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film 
> Movement (UCLA dissertation, 1960)
> Jeffrey Skoller, Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in 
> Avant-Garde Film
> Stephen Dwoskin, Film Is: The International Free Cinema
> David E. James, Allegories of Cinema
>
> -- 
>
> Andy Ditzler
> www.filmlove.org <http://www.filmlove.org/>
> www.johnq.org <http://www.johnq.org/>
> Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Michael Betancourt 
> <hinterland.movies at gmail.com <mailto:hinterland.movies at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm sure I'm forgetting something, so please help!
>
>     Histories of avant-garde film in the United States:
>
>     Lewis Jacobs, “Experimental Cinema in America 1921-1947” in /The
>     Rise of the American Film/ (1948)
>
>     Roger Manvell, /Experiment in the Film/ (1949)
>
>     Gregory Battcock, /The New American Cinema/ (1967)
>
>     Sheldan Renan, /An Introduction to the American Underground Film
>     /(1967)
>
>     Parker Tyler, /The Underground Film: A Critical History/ (1698)
>
>     Gene Youngblood, /Expanded Cinema/ (1970)
>
>     David Curtis, /Experimental Cinema /(1971)
>
>     Amos Vogel, /Film as a Subversive Art/ (1976)
>
>     P. Adams Sitney, /Visionary Film/ (1974)
>
>     Maureen Turin, /Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films/ (1978/85)
>
>     William Wees, /Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual
>     Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film /(1992)
>
>     Scott MacDonald, /Avant-Garde Film Motion Studies/ (1993)
>
>     James Peterson, /Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order/ (1994)
>
>     Jan-Christopher Horak, /Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film
>     Avant-garde, 1919-1945/ (1998)
>
>     Joan Hawkins, /Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific
>     Avant-Garde/ (2000)
>
>     Bruce Posner, /Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film
>     1893-1941/ (2001)
>
>     Lauren Rabinovitz,///Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and
>     Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71/(2003)__
>
>     David E. James, /The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and
>     Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles/ (2005)
>
>     Paul Arthur, /Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965/
>     (2005)
>
>     Alexander Graf, ed., /Avant-Garde Film (Avant-Garde Critical
>     Studies 23)/ (2007)
>
>     A. L. Rees, /A History of Experimental Film and Video/ (2011)
>
>
>
>     Michael Betancourt
>     Savannah, GA USA
>
>
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