Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the Universi…
The growing recognition that Los Angeles has been the single most important center for avant-garde, experimental, and minority filmmaking has provided the ground for a number of recent historiographical, curatorial, and institutional initiatives. Chief among these was an extende…