| Description |
x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents Introduction: The Deceptive Typology of Experimental Film and Video -- Art/Not Art -- 1. A Historical Outline of the Illegitimate Popular Tradition: Continuity and Resistance -- 2. The History of Art, the Function of the Avant-Garde and the Rise of Modernism -- 3. Folklore vs. Kitsch: How Art Theorised Against the Popular -- Cinema at the Heart of the Pop/Art Conflict -- 4. Montage Culture: Cinema as the Popular Function of Film -- 5. The First Avant-Garde Film Movement: The Vengeance of Art -- 6. British Independent Film 1925-66: The Rise of the State Alternative to Popular Cinema -- 7. Amateur Cine Culture: The Hidden Continuity From 1930s Experimental Film to 1960s Underground Cinema -- The Search for the Cool Place: Underground Cinema Vs. Avant-Garde Film -- 8. Anti-Art, Pop and Bohemia: The Bohemian Cabaret as Precursor to the Underground Cinema -- 9. The Origins of the US Underground: The Cultural Hybrid of Popular Culture, Anti-Art and the Counter-culture -- 10. The London Film-makers' Co-operative and the First British Underground Cinema 1966-70 -- 11. Radical Theory and Its Practice: A Demystification -- 12. The Constitution of the Independent Sector: A Trinity of Texts - Curtis, Gidal and Wollen -- 13. The Underground Cinema Resurgence: From the New York Cinema of Transgression to the New London Underground 1991-2006 -- Resolution: State of the Art |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-250) and index |
| Subject |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Experimental films -- History and criticism.
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Experimental films -- History.
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Independent filmmakers -- History.
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Independent filmmakers.
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| ISBN |
190567421X (paperback) |
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1905674228 (hbk.) |
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9781905674213 (paperback) |
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9781905674220 (hbk.) |
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