Film culture reader

by Sitney, P. Adams

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Title Statements

Full title :Film culture reader / edited and with an introduction by P. Adams Sitney.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.
Edition:1st Cooper Square Press ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cooper Square Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

Notes

Includes index.

Originally published: New York : Praeger Publishers, 1970, in series: Praeger film books ; Praeger paperbacks.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 438 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0815411014, 9780815411017
oclc:ocm44883517
LC Classification:PN1995.9.E96
Dewey Decimal:791.43/3

Introduction : A reader's guide to the American avant-garde film / P. Adams Sitney -- One: The formative years, 1955-58. The film as an original art form / Hans Richter ; The experimental film in America / Jonas Mekas ; Metaphysic of Ordet : a letter from Carl Th. Dreyer ; Citizen Kane : the American baroque / Andrew Sarris ; In memoriam of Dimitri Kirsanov, a neglected master / Walter S. Michel ; A preface to the problems of the experimental film / Parker Tyler ; The merry widow / introduced by Erich von Stroheim ; Portrait of an artist / Rudolf Arnheim ; A footnote to Foolish wives / Herman G. Weinberg ; Coffee, brandy, & cigars XXX / Herman G. Weinberg -- Two: The new American cinema. A call for a new generation of film-makers / Jonas Mekas ; For an uncontrolled cinema / Richard Leacock ; The first statement of the new American cinema group ; To Maya Deren / Rudolf Arnheim ; Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas ; For Shadows, against Pull my daisy / Parker Tyler -- Three: The commercial cinema and the Auteur theory. Notes on the Auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris ; The camera as a god / Charles Boultenhouse ; Dreyer / Ken Kelman ; Defense of Jayne Mansfield / Micha…

Subjects

avant-garde Avantgarde Criticism, interpretation, etc Experimental films Experimental films -- History and criti… Film Film Culture (tijdschrift) Filmkunst Filmtheorie