Contents:

Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema

Part one. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959. - The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak - Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas - The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz - Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda