There are lots of books, here are some, arranged chronologically by date of publication:
Frank Stauffacher and Richard Foster, *Art in Cinema* (catalog, 1946) Lewis Jacobs, “Experimental Cinema in America 1921-1947” in *The Rise of the American Film* (1948) Roger Manvell, *Experiment in the Film* (1949) Robert Pike, *A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement* (UCLA dissertation, 1960) Gregory Battcock, *The New American Cinema* (1967) Sheldon Renan, *An Introduction to the American Underground Film *(1967) Parker Tyler, *The Underground Film: A Critical History* (1968) Gene Youngblood, *Expanded Cinema* (1970) David Curtis, *Experimental Cinema *(1971) Annette Michelson, *Artforum: Structural Film* (special issue), September 1971 Dennis Wheeler, ed., *Form and Structure in Recent Film* (catalog, 1972) Annette Michelson, *New Forms in Film. Montreux, August 3/24 1974* (catalog, 1974) P. Adams Sitney, *Visionary Film* (1974) P. Adams Sitney, ed. *The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of the Anthology Film Archives* (1975) Standish Lawder, *The Cubist Cinema* (1975) Robert Russett & Cecile Starr, *Experimental Animation* (1977) Malcolm Le Grice, *Abstract Film and Beyond* (1977) Maureen Turim, *Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films* (1978/85) Lauren Rabinovitz,* Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71* (1989, reprinted 2003) William Wees, *Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film *(1992) Bart Testa, *Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde* (1992) Scott MacDonald, *Avant-Garde Film Motion Studies* (1993) William C. Wees, *Recycled Images* (1993) Robert Haller, *First Light: Abstract Light Forms* (1998) Jan-Christopher Horak, *Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945* (1998) Bruce Posner, *Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941* (2001) Chrissie Iles, *Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977* (catalog, 2001) Sophie Duplaix, *Sons et Lumieres* (catalog, 2004) Peter Weibel, *Light Art from Artificial Light* (catalog, 2005) Kerry Brougher, *Visual Music *(catalog, 2005) David E. James, *The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles* (2005) Jeffrey Skoller, *Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film* (2005) Paul Arthur, *Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965* (2005) Dominique Willoughby, *Le Cinema Graphique *(2009) Dieter Daniels, *See This Sound: Audiovisuology Compendium* (vols 1 & 2) (2009) A. L. Rees, *A History of Experimental Film and Video* (2011) A. L. Rees, et al, *Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film* (2011) Enzo Terano, *On the Birth of Experimental Cinema* (2011) Christian Keining and Heinrich Adolf, *Der Absolute Film: Dokumente der Medienavantgarde (1912-1936)* (2012) Michael Betancourt, *The History of Motion Graphics* (2013) Aimee Mollaghan, *The Visual Music Film* (2015) and some monographs on/by artists: John Whitney, *Digital Harmony* (1980) Leonardo Quaresima, *Walter Ruttmann: Cinema, Pittura, Ars Acustica* (1994) Fosta Werner and Bengt Edlund, *Viking Eggeling Diagonalsymfonin* (1998) Jean-Michel Bouhours and Roger Horrocks, *Len Lye *(catalog, 2000) William Moritz, *Optical Poetry* (2004) Cindy Keefer and Jaap Guldemond, *Oskar Fischinger: 1900-1967* (2012) Have fun! Michael Betancourt Savannah, GA USA michaelbetancourt.com twitter.com/cinegraphic | vimeo.com/cinegraphic www.cinegraphic.net | the avant-garde film & video blog On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Dorottya Szalay < dorottya.sza...@artincinema.com> wrote: > Hi Frameworkers, > > I'm trying to get references on "abstract film". > I went through Malcolm LeGrice's book (Abstract Film and Beyond) and I > would like to know more. First of all I would like to track down the origin > of the term "abstract film". Who used it first? Who was the first known > filmmaker who defined his films "abstract"? Was it Bruno Corra? (Abstract > Cinema - Chromatic Music). > > So I would be very happy if you could recommend more literature (books, > articles, dissertations etc.) on the topic. > > I was hoping that Raphael Bassan's* Cinema et abstraction* will be > available in English but I haven't found it yet. Does anyone know anything > about the current state of the translation? > > Thank you! > > > Dorottya Szalay > dorottya.sza...@artincinema.com > www.artincinema.com > CZ: + 420 605 571 271 > HU: + 36 70 359 9223 > > <http://artincinema.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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