Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941
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The Unseen Cinema catalog features 30 essays, 65 annotated photographs, articles and documents. Authors are scholars, critics and filmmakers whose knowledge of the early avant-garde comes from either direct experience as a participant or from years of scholarly research. Many hard-to-find photographs and sources detail the first decades of american experimental cinema in the United States and abroad. Table of Contents Foreword Jan-Christopher Horak Words and Pictures annotated photographs 1. The Grand Experiment Bruce Posner 2. Hollywood Extras: One Tradition of Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles David James 3. Emlen Etting: Three Films R. Bruce Elder 4. The Attraction of Nature in Early Cinema Scott MacDonald 5. Le Retour á la raison: Hidden Meaning Deke Dusinberre 6. Music for Ballet Mécanique: 90s Technology Realizes a 20s Vision Paul D. Lehrman 7. Sara Kathryn Arledge: Introspection Terry Cannon 8. Busby Berkeley and America s Pioneer Abstract Filmmakers Cecile Starr 9. Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources Lynda Roscoe Hartigan 10. Discussing D.W. Griffith Jay Leyda 11. Maurice Tourneur and The Bluebird Jan-Christopher Horak 12. Diva of Decadence: Salome Kenneth Anger 13. W.K.L. Dickson: Pioneer Filmmaker Paul Spehr 14. Elizabeth Woodman Wright: Windy Ledge Farm Karan Sheldon & Bruce Posner 15. Robert Florey and the Hollywood Avant-Garde Brian Taves 16. Working on The City Henwar Rodakiewicz 17. Warren Newcombe: The Enchanted City Stephen J. Schneider 18. My Films J.S. Watson, Jr. 19. J.S. Watson, Jr. Nass River Indians Lynda Jessup 20. ...And Melville Webber Dale Davis 21. Making Twenty-four Dollar Island Robert Flaherty 22. Avant-Garde Production in America Lewis Jacobs (excerpts) 23. Rutherford Boyd and Parabola Douglas Dreishpoon 24. Notes on New Cinema of 1929 and 1930 Harry Alan Potamkin 25. Herman G. Weinberg: Autumn Fire Robert A. Haller 26. Unanswered Questions: Eisensteins Qué Viva México! Herman G. Weinberg 27. My First Movie and The Hearts of Age Orson Welles interviewed by Peter Bogdanovich 28. Highway 66: Montage Notes for a Documentary Film Lewis Jacobs 29. The American Vanguard: Flux and Experience R. Bruce Elder 30. New Artistic Process Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff
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