TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sitney,P.Adams
TI  - Film culture reader
SN  - 0815411014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1995.9 F487 2000
U1  - 791.43/3 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cooper Square Press
KW  - Experimental films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cine experimental
KW  - Historia y crítica
N1  - Originally published: New York : Praeger Publishers, 1970, in series: Praeger film books ; Praeger paperbacks; Includes index
; Introduction : A reader's guide to the American avant-garde film / P. Adams Sitney
One: The formative years, 1955-58. The film as an original art form / Hans Richter ; The experimental film in America / Jonas Mekas ; Metaphysic of Ordet : a letter from Carl Th. Dreyer ; Citizen Kane : the American baroque / Andrew Sarris ; In memoriam of Dimitri Kirsanov, a neglected master / Walter S. Michel ; A preface to the problems of the experimental film / Parker Tyler ; The merry widow / introduced by Erich von Stroheim ; Portrait of an artist / Rudolf Arnheim ; A footnote to Foolish wives / Herman G. Weinberg ; Coffee, brandy, & cigars XXX / Herman G. Weinberg
Two: The new American cinema. A call for a new generation of film-makers / Jonas Mekas ; For an uncontrolled cinema / Richard Leacock ; The first statement of the new American cinema group ; To Maya Deren / Rudolf Arnheim ; Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas ; For Shadows, against Pull my daisy / Parker Tyler
Three: The commercial cinema and the Auteur theory. Notes on the Auteur theory in 1962 / Andrew Sarris ; The camera as a god / Charles Boultenhouse ; Dreyer / Ken Kelman ; Defense of Jayne Mansfield / Michael McClure
Four: The American avant-garde. Poetry and the film : a symposium with Maya Deren, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Parker Tyler. Chairman, Willard Maas / organized by Amos Vogel ; Imagism in four avant-garde films / P. Adams Sitney ; Interview with Stan Brakhage / P. Adams Sitney ; The birth film / Jane Brakhage ; Respond dance / Stan Brakhage ; On The art of vision / Robert Kelly ; Harry Smith interview / P. Adams Sitney ; Kenneth's Anger's Scorpio rising / Carolee Schneemann ; Smith myth / Ken Kelman ; Interview with Peter Kubelka / Jonas Mekas ; Some notes on Sleep / Henry Geldzahler ; The cosmic cinema of Jordan Belson / Gene Youngblood ; Notes on some new movies and happiness / Jonas Mekas ; Structural film / P. Adams Sitney ; On "structural film" (by P. Adams Sitney) / George Maciunas
N2  - This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger
ER  -