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

[Michael Betancourt]

Thanks to everyone who had titles to add! Here's the compiled list:

*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)



Robert Pike, A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement
(UCLA dissertation, 1960)



Gregory Battcock, *The New American Cinema* (1967)



Sheldon Renan, *An Introduction to the American Underground Film *(1967)



Parker Tyler, *The Underground Film: A Critical History* (1968)



Gene Youngblood, *Expanded Cinema* (1970)



P. Adams Sitney, ed., *Film Culture Reader* (1970)



David Curtis, *Experimental Cinema *(1971)

Annette Michelson, *Artforum: Structural Film (special issue), September
1971*


Jonas Mekas, *Movie Journal* (1972)


Annette Michelson, *New Forms in Film. Montreux, August 3/24 1974*
(catalog, 1974)


P. Adams Sitney, *Visionary Film* (1974)

P. Adams Sitney, ed. *The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the
Collection of the Anthology Film Archives* (1975)



Standish Lawder, *The Cubist Cinema* (1975)



Stephen Dwoskin, *Film Is: The International Free Cinema* (1975)



Amos Vogel, *Film as a Subversive Art* (1976)



Robert Russett & Cecile Starr, *Experimental Animation* (1977)



Malcolm Le Grice, *Abstract Film and Beyond* (1977)



Maureen Turim, *Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films* (1978/85)



Dominique Noguez, *Une renaissance du cinéma : le cinéma "underground"
américain* (1985, reprinted 2002)



David E. James, *Allegories of Cinema* (1989)


Stan Brakhage, *Film at Wit’s End* (1989)



Patricia Mellencamp, *Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, & Feminism*
(1990)



William Wees, *Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of
Avant-Garde Film *(1992)



David James, *To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the NY Underground* (1992)



Bart Testa, *Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde* (1992)



Scott MacDonald, *Avant-Garde Film Motion Studies* (1993)


William C. Wees, *Recycled Images* (1993)



James Peterson, *Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order* (1994)



Robert Haller, *First Light: Abstract Light Forms* (1998)



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)



Bill Nichols, *Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde* (2001)



Scott MacDonald, *The Garden in the Machine. A Field Guide to Independent
Films About Place* (2001)



Chrissie Iles, *Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art
1964-1977* (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)



Jeffrey Skoller, *Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde
Film* (2005)



Paul Arthur, *Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965* (2005)



 Robert Haller, *Crossroads: Avant-Garde film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s*
(2005)



Alexander Graf, ed., *Avant-Garde Film (Avant-Garde Critical Studies 23)*
(2007)



Robin Blaetz, *Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks* (2007)



P. Adams Sitney, *Eyes Upside Down* (2008)



Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, eds., *Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media
Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973–1990* (2008)



Steve Anker, et al, *Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San
Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000* (2010)



Dominique Noguez, *Eloge du cinéma expérimental *(3rd ed., 2010)



A. L. Rees, *A History of Experimental Film and Video* (2011)



A. L. Rees, et al, *Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film* (2011)



Adeline Coffinier & Victor Gresard, *Film Culture Index 1955-1996* (2012)


Erika Balsom, *Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art* (2013)



P. Adams Sitney, ed. *The Collected Writings of Gregory Markopolous* (2014)



Michael Betancourt
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