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book		The avant-garde film : a reader of theory and criticism / edited by P. Adams Sitney New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1987. Call No: 771 SIT Author: Sitney, P. Adams Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Anthology Film Archives PubDate: 1987 PhysDes: xlv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series: Anthology film archives series ; v. 3 Subject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; UNDERGROUND FILMS Summary: "This is a comprehensive anthology of writings by and about avant-garde filmmakers, edited with an historical introduction by a noted authority on film. Several theoretical and critical articles appear here for the first time, while many others have been translated into English especially for this collection, making available to the reader the vivid and continuing debate about the essence of cinema which began with the Surrealist, Dadist and Constructivist filmmakers of the 1920s and which is an important and fascinating aspect of the history of the most modern art." - taken from back cover. Notes: Includes index (pp. 291-295). -- c1978 ISBN: 0911689087 Contents: P. Adams Sitney: Introduction -- Dziga Vertov: Selected Writings -- Sergei Eisenstein: On the Question of a Materialist Approach to Form -- Hans Richter: The Badly Trained Sensibility -- Jean Epstein: The Essence of Cinema -- Jean Epstein: For a New Avant-Garde -- Germaine Dulac: From "Visual and Anti-visual Films" -- Germaine Dulac: The Essence of the Cinema: The Visual idea -- Germaine Dulac: The Avant-Garde Cinema -- Atonin Artaud: Sorcery and the Cinema -- Joseph Cornell: Monsieur Phot -- Maya Deren: Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality -- Sidney Peterson: Cine Dance and Two Notes -- James Broughton: Two Notes on Mother's Day -- John and James Whitney: Audio-Visual Music -- P. Adams Sitney: Harry Smith Interview -- Harry Smith: On Mahogany -- Carel Rowe: Illuminating Lucifer -- Stan Brakhage: from Metaphors on Vision -- Stan Brakhage: Letter to Yves Kovacs (On Surrealism) -- Stan Brakhage: Letter to Ronna Page (On Music) -- Peter Kubelka: The Theory of Metrical Film -- Stephen Koch: Andy Warhol's Silence -- Annette Michelson: Toward Snow -- Michael Snow: Two Letters and Notes on Films -- Jonas Mekas: The Diary Film -- P. Adams Sitney: Autobiography in Avant-Garde Film -- Ernie Gehr: Program Notes -- Anthony McCall: Two Statements -- Paul Sharits: Hearing:Seeing -- Paul Sharits: from "Words Per Page" -- Tony Conrad: A Few Remarks Before I Begin -- Hollis Frampton: Lecture -- Hollis Frampton: A Pentagram For Conjuring the Narrative More info
journal article		Image and title in Avant-garde cinema in October (Winter 1979) p.97-112 Author: Sitney, P. Adams PhysDes: Article Subject: ETOILE DE MER, L' (FR, Man Ray, 1924) Summary: Ill More info
book		Modernist montage : the obscurity of vision in cinema and literature / P. Adams Sitney New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Call No: 771 SIT Author: Sitney, P. Adams Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 1990 PhysDes: x, 250 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; USSR; DREYER, CARL TH.; BRESSON, ROBERT; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Summary: "P. Adams Sitney's Modernist Montage traces a history of modernism in cinema and provides compelling readings of a wide range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, and Stan Brakhage. In this provocative investigation, Sitney explores various theories of vision by examining the sometimes neglected texts of Maurice Blanchot, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein and by offering a bold interpretation of the relationship between literature and film." - taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. ISBN: 0231071833 Contents: 1. The Instant of Love: Image and Title in Surrealist Cinema -- 2. Revolutionary Time: Image and Title in Soviet Cinema -- 3. Moments of Revelation: Dreyer's Anachronistic Modernity -- 4. Cinematography vs. the Cinema: Bresson's Figures -- 5. The Recit and the Figure: Blanchot's Au moment voulu -- 6. Saying "Nothing": Persona as an Allegory of Psychoanalysis -- 7. The Sentiment of Doing Nothing: Stein's Autobiographies -- 8. Out via Nothing: Olson's Genealogy of the Proper Poem -- 9. Whoever Sees God Dies: Cinematic Epiphanies -- 10. Theology vs. Psychoanalysis: Landow's Wit More info
book		Visionary film : the American avant-garde / P. Adams Sitney New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Call No: 771.1(73) SIT Author: Sitney, P. Adams Edition: 2d ed Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1979 PhysDes: xiv, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; ANGER, KENNETH; BEAVERS, ROBERT; BELSON, JORDAN; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BREER, ROBERT; CROWLEY, ALEISTER; BRAKHAGE, JANE; BAILLIE, BRUCE; BROUGHTON, JAMES; CLARKE, SHIRLEY; CONNER, BRUCE; DEREN, MAYA; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS; GEHR, ERNIE; JACOBS, KEN; JORDAN, LARRY; LANDOW, GEORGE; LYE, LEN; MACLAINE, CHRISTOPHER; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY; MEKAS, JONAS; NELSON, ROBERT; PETERSON, SIDNEY; RAINER, YVONNE; SHARITS, PAUL; SMITH, HARRY; SMITH, JACK; SNOW, MICHAEL; WARHOL, ANDY; WHITNEY, JAMES; RICE, RON; MAAS, WILLARD; KUBELKA, PETER; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; CORNELL, JOSEPH Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0195024850 : $15.95; 0195024869(pbk.) LON: 1228317 More info
Levy Collection book		Visionary film : the american avant-garde / P. Adams Sitney New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Author: Sitney, P. Adams Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 26 cm ; 452 p. Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
Yet to catalogue book		Vital crises in Italian cinema : iconography, stylistics, politics / P. Adams Sitney Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Call No: 71(45) SIT Author: Sitney, P. Adams Edition: 1st ed Place: Austin Publisher: University of Texas Press PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: xi, 239 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index ISBN: 0292776888 (pbk. : alk. paper); 029277687X (alk. paper) LON: 94026979; 11107726 More info

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