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Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941 Edited and annotated by Bruce Posner; Published by Anthology Film ArchivesPaperback - 160 pages
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Unseen Cinema catalog features 30 essays, articles, and documents and 65 annotated photographs. Authors are scholars, critics, and filmmakers whose knowledge of the early avant-garde derives from either direct experience as a participant or 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.
"Fascinating volume of well-chosen essays that manages to be genuinely provocative while greatly enriching our understanding and appreciation... Any reader even vaguely interested in this material would do well to seek out this volume, and the exhibition that bears its name." - Film Quarterly, Summer 2005 "One is amazed that these beautiful jewels could lie neglected until Bruce Posner comes along and digs them up, makes new prints, and then positions them within the writ of the book and the programming and presents them all over the world. I don’t know of anyone who has done more to reveal to us the overlooked and the underrated cinema which once seen by and through his and other people’s auspices certainly comes to take its preeminent place in film history." - Stan Brakhage 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: Eisenstein’s "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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