Experimental Cinema

The Film Reader

• Author(s): Wheeler W. Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 356
• ISBN_10: 0415277868
  ISBN_13: 9780415277860
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Performing Arts / Film / Genres / General , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader addresses major movements and key figures of the avant-garde, including filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Isaac Julien and Julie Dash, investigates how underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video.