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

Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415277877.

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 editors introduction setting debates in their context. Sections include: *Origins of the American avant-garde cinema - Explores the influence of the birth of experimental film, and considers the early work of filmmakers such as Maya Deren. *The 1960s experimental film explosion - traces the development of the New American Cinema, examining the influence and work of key filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, and collage filmmaker Bruce Conner. *Structuralism in the 1970s - Identifies and discusses the main figures in Structuralist film including Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton. *Alternative cinemas - Examines the work of recent filmmakers such as Isaac Julien, Julie Dash, and Barbara Hammer, and considers the future of experimental film. 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 Angers 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: Warhols 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 Womens Independent Cinema by Gloria J. Gibson 20. Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film by Kobena Mercer