Book Description
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader traces the development of major movements such as the New American Cinema of the 1960s and the Structuralist films of the 1970s, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglected filmmakers. Contributors focus on the ways in which underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground important technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video. Each section features an editor's introduction setting debates in their context. The book concludes with a valuable filmography of key films available.
About the author
Wheeler Winston Dixon is Professor of Film Studies and English and Chair of the Film Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of The Second Century of Cinema (2000), Film Genre 2000 (2000) and Disaster and Memory (1999). Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Women Film Directors (1995) and Captive Bodies. Both are also the editors of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
