Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000

By P. Adams Sitney

Book Overview

Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once again revised and updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his discussion of the principal genres and major filmmakers up to the year 2000.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514886X
• ISBN13: 9780195148862
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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