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Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000
P. Adams Sitney
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Paperback. Visionary Film has been the dominant study of the American avant-garde cinema for twenty-five years. Now P. Adams Sitney has revised the book, adding a new chapter that brings his discussion of the principle genres and the major filmmakers up to the year 2000. Num Pages: 480 pages, 77 halftones & 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; APF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Visionary Film has remained the standard text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the major filmmakers since Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made their dreamlike film "Meshes of the Afternoon" in 1943. Sitney also identifies the emergence and flowering of a new genre, which he calls Menippean Satire. This edition also includes a chapter on the films of Gregory ... Read more
Visionary Film has remained the standard text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the major filmmakers since Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made their dreamlike film "Meshes of the Afternoon" in 1943. Sitney also identifies the emergence and flowering of a new genre, which he calls Menippean Satire. This edition also includes a chapter on the films of Gregory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195148862
SKU
V9780195148862
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About P. Adams Sitney
P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University.
Reviews for Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000
Praise for previous editions of Visionary Film: Without question it is the first such book on the avant-garde film
the first one that probes this field in such depth, with such perspective and vision, with such insight and intelligence.
Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice
the first one that probes this field in such depth, with such perspective and vision, with such insight and intelligence.
Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice