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

Gene Youngblood atopia at comcast.net
Thu Jan 29 22:33:35 UTC 2015


What about including documentaries and video interview series? 

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 2:16 PM, lagonaboba <lagonaboba at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nothing like building a bibliography to warm the heart on a cold snow covered day.
> These lists always seem to detour away from the literal query…”American”  “History” (nobody said Theory)
> but perhaps:
> 
> Jonas Mekas “Movie Journal”
> P. Adams Sitney  “Eyes Upside Down”
> P. Adams Sitney, ed. “The Collected Writings of Gregory Markopolous”
> P. Adams Sitney, ed. “The Essential Cinema”
> P. Adams Sitney, ed. “Film Culture Reader"
> Standish Lawder, “The Cubist Cinema”
> R.Russett & Cecile Starr, “Experimental Animation”
> Bill Nichols, “Maya Deren and the American Avante Garde"
> David James, “To Free the Cinema"
> 
> 
> There are many volumes dedicated to the work of individual filmmakers.
> and if Annette Michaelson’s valuable exhibition catalog,"New Forms in Film”, already mentioned by Truniger, counts,
> then,
> Vincent Grenier, ed. catalog "10 Years of Living Cinema”
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Gawthrop, Rob <Rob.Gawthrop at falmouth.ac.uk <mailto:Rob.Gawthrop at falmouth.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>> Film Is - Steve Dwoskin
>> 
>> From: Michael Betancourt <hinterland.movies at gmail.com <mailto:hinterland.movies at gmail.com>>
>> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>>
>> Date: Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:16
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>> Subject: [Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US
>> 
>> 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)
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>> 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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