Film Culture Reader by Sitney, Adams P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Dedication Introduction: A Reader’s Guide to the American Avant-Garde Film One: The Formative Years, 1955–58

The Film as an Original Art Form The Experimental Film in America Metaphysic of Ordet Citizen Kane: The American Baroque In Memoriam of Dimitri Kirsanov, a Neglected Master A Preface to the Problems of the Experimental Film The Merry Widow, Introduced Portrait of an Artist A Footnote to Foolish Wives Coffee, Brandy, & Cigars XXX

Two: The New American Cinema

A Call for a New Generation of Film-Makers For an Uncontrolled Cinema The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group To Maya Deren Notes on the New American Cinema For Shadows, Against Pull My Daisy

Three: The Commercial Cinema and the Auteur Theory

Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 The Camera as a God Dreyer Defense of Jayne Mansfield

Four: The American Avant-Garde

Poetry and the Film: A Symposium Imagism in Four Avant-Garde Films Interview with Stan Brakhage The Birth Film Respond Dance On The Art of Vision Harry Smith Interview Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising Smith Myth Interview with Peter Kubelka Some Notes on Sleep The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson Notes on Some New Movies and Happiness Structural Film On “Structural Film” (by P. Adams Sitney)

Five: Overviews and Theoretical Considerations

The Writings of Dziga Vertov Orson Welles and the Big Experimental Film Cult Classic Plastics (and Total Tectonics) The Image of the Body A Note on Comedy in Experimental Film Film and the Radical Aspiration

Appendix: The Independent Film Award Index