Dear Joan (and Frameworkers),
I hope people respond on-list, as this is a perennial problem for anyone
teaching undergraduate courses on avant-garde cinema. To my knowledge,
there is not a good general history of AGF, much less one accessible to
students with little or no background in the
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Very interested in this question and the responses. Just today I was asked to
put together a special festival program on the history of American avant-garde
cinema. This is for an audience that may have never seen a survey of this type,
so it should be very basic and canonical even but
Jonathan, I've always hoped that my Critical Cinema books might be useful for undergraduates as introductory texts. They do not pretend to provide anything like a "complete" history, but these volumes can provide a sense of the world of avant-garde cinema and the thinking of (some of) the
Scott (et. al.),
Your CRITICAL CINEMA books are extremely useful, in part because they are,
indeed, reader friendly. I would say that about MOTION STUDIES, too. I hope
it's clear that my point was that I don't think there is a single broad
historical survey of avant-garde cinema, so that anyone
I would suggest Scott MacDonald's books Adventures of Perception
University of California Press 2009 and Avant Garde Film/Motion Studies
Cambridge Univ. press 1993 and P. Adams Sitneys Visionary Film: The
American Avant-Garde 1943-2000 Third Edition, Oxford Univ. Press 2002.
I have taught these
Hey Jonathan et al, I don't actually think there can be a single, comprehensive history--since "avant-garde cinema" can mean so many things, what exactly is "avant-garde" and what all does that history include? In any case, I think it's better to have students enter the field by way of the
