Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions

by Michael O'Pray

Book Overview

Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema and the French New Wave, structuralism and contemporary gallery work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903364566
• ISBN13: 9781903364567
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.1"