Visionary Film

The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000

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by P. Adams Sitney

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Experimental

Keywords

United States, experimental, history of cinema

Publishing date

2002

Publisher

Oxford University Press

3rd edition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 480 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (16.5 x 25 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-19-514886-X
978-0-19-514886-2

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Book Presentation:
Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once again revised and updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his discussion of the principal genres and major filmmakers up to the year 2000.

About the Author:
P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University.

Press Reviews:
"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

See the publisher website: Oxford University Press