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

[Adam Hyman]

Announcement!

I¹m 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

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Alternative Projections
Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
edited by David E. James and Adam Hyman
Indiana University Press

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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 Foundation¹s Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles
1945-1980, and the University of Southern California¹s School of Cinematic
Arts and its Arts and Humanities Initiative, ³Visions and Voices.² 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Alternative Projections includes reprints of rare historical documents by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 
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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 £29.99
Publication Date:  March 13, 2015
To order: call 1-800-842-6796 or log onto http://iupress.indiana.edu
<http://iupress.indiana.edu>
Contact: Theresa Halter, Publicity Coordinator, thalter at indiana.edu
<mailto:thalter at indiana.edu> , 812-855-8054

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