@book {expcin15991, title = {The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism}, series = { Anthology film archives}, number = {3}, year = {1978}, pages = {295 pp}, publisher = {New York University Press}, organization = {New York University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {
This anthology is both a history of the avant-garde film genre and a compendium of theories of cinema articulated by major filmmakers. The 33 selections include several previously unpublished theoretical and critical articles and many articles that were especially translated into English for this collection. Other selections were drawn from interviews and from lectures contained in the Anthology Film Archives.
}, keywords = {Andy Warhol, Anthony McCall, Antonin Artaud, Ernie Gehr, Germaine Dulac, Hans Richter, Harry Smith, Hollis Frampton, James Broughton, James Whitney, Jean Epstein, John Whitney, Jonas Mekas, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren, Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Peter Kubelka, Sergei Eisenstein, Sidney Peterson, Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad}, isbn = {9780814777930}, author = {P.Adams Sitney and Sergei Eisenstein and Hans Richter and Jean Epstein and Germaine Dulac and Antonin Artaud and Joseph Cornell and Maya Deren and Sidney Peterson and James Broughton and John Whitney and James Whitney and Harry Smith and Carel Rowe and Stan Brakhage and Peter Kubelka and Stephen Koch and Annette Michelson and Michael Snow and Jonas Mekas and Ernie Gehr and Anthony McCall and Paul Sharits and Tony Conrad and Hollis Frampton} } @book {expcin16021, title = {Cinema now 1: Perspectives on American underground film: Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek}, year = {1968}, pages = {28 pp}, publisher = {University of Cincinnati}, organization = {University of Cincinnati}, address = {Cincinnati}, abstract = {Transcript of a discussion among filmmakers and members of the Film as Art and Communication class at the University of Cincinnati, which took place in April 1967.
}, keywords = {American Cinema, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Stan VanDerBeek}, author = {Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas and John Cage and Stan VanDerBeek}, editor = {Hector Currie and Michael Porte} } @article {expcin16010, title = {Film Culture 30: Metaphors on Vision}, year = {1963}, abstract = {{\textquotedblleft}Metaphors on Vision is a collection of writings on the film and, in particular, on the film as Stan Brakhage sees and makes it. Yet more significantly it is a testament of what makes mythopoeic art. Mythopoeia is the often attempted and seldom achieved result of making a myth new or making a new myth.{\textquotedblright} (from the Introduction)
Edited with an Introduction by P. Adams Sitney
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