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1 online resource (344 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: HISTORICAL MATERIALS; Introduction; Chapter 1 Distribution Center for Experimental Films; Chapter 2 Personal Chronicle: The Making of an Experimental Film; Chapter 3 A Letter from the West Coast; Chapter 4 Amateur vs. Professional; Chapter 5 Personal State Meant; Chapter 6 A Statement; Chapter 7 Are Movies Junk; Chapter 8 Los Angeles Film Festival; Chapter 9 Seeing Is Believing; Chapter 10 Underground Movies Rise to the Surface; Chapter 11 Students Reflect Future of Cinema; Chapter 12 Woman as Ethnographic Filmmaker. |
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Chapter 13 Mouse Enigma: Auto-History Of A Film PersonPART II: SCHOLARSHIP; Introduction; Chapter 14 Scarlet Woman on Film: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and The Wormwood Star: Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington, Marjorie Cameron, and Los Angeles Alternative Film and Culture in the Early 1950s; Chapter 15 Against Transparency: Jonas Mekas, Vernon Zimmerman, and the West Coast Contribution to the New American Cinema; Chapter 16 Vicarious Vicario: Restocking John Vicario's Forgotten Shoppers Market (1963). |
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Chapter 17 Raymond Rohauer and the Society of Cinema Arts (1948-1962): Giving the Devil His DueChapter 18 For Love and/or Money: Exhibiting Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles 1960-1980; Chapter 19 Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles: Reinventing the Real of Cinema; Chapter 20 Taylor Mead, a Faggot in Venice Beach in 1961; Chapter 21 Ed Ruscha's Moving Pictures; Chapter 22 Asco's Super-8 Cinema and the Specter of Muralism; Chapter 23 Inner-city Symphony: Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification. |
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Chapter 24 Not Just a Day Job: Experimental Filmmakers and the Special Effects Industry in the 1970s and 1980sChapter 25 Storm, Stress, and Structure: The Collaborative Cinema of Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren; Chapter 26 Nun Notes and Deviant Longings; Chapter 27 Currents Direct and Alternating: Water and Power and Other Works by Pat O'Neill; PART III: SCREENINGS; Chapter 28 Alternative Projections Screenings Series; Program Notes; Notes on the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, together with newly-commissioned essays, an account of the screening series, reprints of historical documents by and about experimental filmmakers in the region, and other rare photographs and ephemera. The resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection is of great im. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- United States.
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Experimental films. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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James, David E., 1945- editor.
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Hyman, Adam, editor.
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Print version: Alternative projections : experimental film in Los Angeles 1945-1980. New Barnet, Herts, [England]: John Libbey Publishing, ©2015 viii, 335 pages 9780861967155 |
| ISBN |
9780861969098 (electronic book) |
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086196909X (electronic book) |
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9780861967155 |
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