As straight history: John Hanhardt's A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA (NY: American Federation of Arts, 1976). (Like Anthology, proposes a canon.)
Wheeler Dixon, THE EXPLODING EYE: A RE-VISONARY HISTORY OF THE 1960s AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA (Albany, SUNY Press, 1997. Not straight history, but of related interest: Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wexman, WOMEN AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING (Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2005 Dixon and Foster, eds. EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: THE FILM READER (London/NY: Routledge, 2002) Bruce Elder, THE FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF EZRA POUND, GERTRUDE STEIN, AND CHARLES OLSON (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier UP, 1998). (Breathtaking erudition and gem-like scholarly passion...ditto re. Elder's other big cinema book, HARMONY AND DISSENT.) Annette Michelson, ed. NEW FORMS IN FILM: MONTREUX 1974 Dennis Wheeler, ed. FORM AND STRUCTURE IN RECENT FILM (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery/Talonbooks, 1972. Kerry Brougher/Russell Ferguson, ART AND FILM SINCE 1945: HALL OF MIRRORS (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996) _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
