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1	Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000 more books like this by P Adams Sitney add to wishlist Visionary Film has remained the standard text on the American avant-garde cinema since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the ... see all copies from $20.64! new only from $20.64! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Film Culture Reader more books like this by P Adams Sitney (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $12.08! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Gaze of Orpheus: And Other Literary Essays more books like this by Professor Maurice Blanchot, P Adams Sitney (Photographer), Lydia Davis (Translator) add to wishlist Writing about The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Hartman suggested that 'When we come to write the history of criticism for the 1940 to 1980 period, it will be found that Blanchot, together with Sartre, made French 'discourse' possible, both in its relentlessness and its acuity..This selection.is exemplary for its clearly translated and well-chosen ... see all copies from $9.79! new only from $13.54! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Eyes Upside Down: Visonary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson more books like this by P Adams Sitney add to wishlist Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and ... see all copies from $16.98! new only from $20.22! \| first editions
5	Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978 more books like this by P Adams Sitney (Preface by) add to wishlist Covering the American avant-garde in filmmaking, 1973 to 1978, this updated classic offers an "astonishing journey, both historical and theoretical" (Gene Youngblood). see all copies from $2.95! new only from $15.95! \| first editions
6	Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde more books like this by P Adams Sitney add to wishlist see all copies from $7.95! first editions
7	Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature more books like this by P Adams Sitney add to wishlist Tracing the history of modernism in cinema, this study provides readings of a range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. It argues that the act of vision and visual experience are problematized in literary modernism. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $77.00! \| first editions
8	The Avant-Garde Film more books like this by P Adams Sitney (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.97!
9	Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics more books like this by P Adams Sitney add to wishlist In this book, P. Adams Sitney interprets Italian films of the post-World War II era as reflections of national life during a period of vital self-definition. see all copies from $27.75! first editions
10	The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory & Criticism more books like this by P Adams Sitney (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $182.83!
11	The Essential Cinema more books like this by P Adams Sitney (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! first editions
12	The Gaze of Orpheus, and Other Literary Essays more books like this by Lydia Davis (Translator), P. Adams Sitney (Editor), Geoffrey H. Hartman add to wishlist see all copies from $23.18!
13	'Film Culture' - an anthology more books like this by P. Adams Sitney add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00!

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