Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)

ISBN 10: 0415277868 / ISBN 13: 9780415277860

Published by Routledge, 2002

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• Title: Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415277868
• ISBN 13: 9780415277860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

The Reader traces the development of major movements such as the New American Cinema of the 1960s and the Structuralist films of the 1970s, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglected
filmmakers.

Contributors focus on the ways in which underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground important technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video. Each section features an editor's introduction setting debates in their context.

Contents
1. The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945, by Jan-Christopher Horak
2. Notes on the New American Cinema, by Jonas Mekas
3. The Woman Filmmaker in the New York Avant-Garde, by Lauren Rabinovitz
4. Women in the Avant-Garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnes Varda, Chantal Akerman and Trinh T. Minh-ha, by Judith Mayne
5. Pop, Queer or Fascist? The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, by Juan A. Suarez
6. Stan Brakhage - The 60th Birthday Interview, by Suranjan Ganguly
7. The Perfect Queer Appositeness of Jack Smith, by Jerry Tartaglia
8. An Interview with Carolee Schneemann, by Kate Haug
9. The Flower Thief and The Film Poem: Warhol's Early Films and the Beat Writers, by Reva Wolf
10. Walking on Thin Ice: The Films of Yoko Ono, by Daryl Chin
11. Yoko Ono on Yoko Ono, by Yoko Ono
12. Structural Film, by P. Adams Sitney
13. Interview with Michael Snow, by Scott MacDonald
14. The Films of Warren Sonbert, by Phillip Lopate
15. Warren Sonbert Interview, by David Ehrenstein
16. An Interview with Hollis Frampton, by Peter Gidal
17. Re/Constructing Lesbian Auto /Biographies in Tender Fictions and Nitrate Kisses, by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
18. The Films of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich, by Chris Holmlund
19. Black Women's Independent Cinema, by Gloria J. Gibson
20. Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film, by Kobena Mercer

About the Author

Wheeler Winston Dixon is James Ryan Endowed Professor Emeritus in Film Studies, University of Nebraska. He is author of over thirty volumes in film studies and cultural studies. Visit wheelerwinstondixon.com for more information on his many publications and experimental films. Many of Dixon's early experimental films are available at vimeo.com/channels/1080541 - his more recent films can be found at vimeo.com/channels/1080534 for viewing.

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and a prolific author. Foster is author of numerous books in the areas of film studies/cultural studies including her book Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman and books on experimental filmmakers, as well as race, gender and class studies and film history. Foster's documentary on women filmmakers, The Women Who Made the Movies, is distributed by Women Make Movies Inc. Foster is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in film studies at University of Nebraska.

For more information on Foster's extensive publications visit gwendolynaudreyfoster.com

For more on Foster's experimental films visit vimeopro.com/gwendolynaudreyfoster/experimental-films