Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader
(Routledge "In Focus" Series)
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 Tin 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 Authors
Wheeler Winston Dixon is Professor of Film Studies and English and Chair
of The Second Century of Cinema (2000), Film Genre 2000 (2000) and
Disaster and Memory (1999). Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Associate
Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska. She is
the author of Women Film Directors (1995) and Captive Bodies (1999). Both are
also the editors of The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Publisher: Routledge Press, 2002
ISBN: 0415277876 Paperback;
ISBN: 0415277868 Hardcover
288 pages; 20 photographs.