FILM CULTURE READER

Preface / P. ADAMS SITNEY = ⅶ Introduction : A Reader's Guide to the American Avant-Garde Film / P. ADAMS SITNEY = 3 One: The Formative Years, 1955-58 = 13 The Film as an Original Art Form / HANS RICHTER = 15 The Experimental Film in America / JONAS MEKAS = 21 Metaphysic of Ordet: A Letter from Carl Th. Dreyer = 27 Citizen Kane: The American Baroque / ANDREW SARRIS = 29 In Memoriam of Dimitri Kirsanov, a Neglected Master / WALTER S. MICHEL = 37 A Preface to the Problems of the Experimental Film / PARKER TYLER = 42 The Merry Widow, Introduced / ERICH VON STROHEIM = 52 Portrait of an Artist / RUDOLF ARNHEIM = 57 A Footnote to Foolish Wives / HERMAN G. WEINBERG = 62 Coffee, Brandy, & Cigars XXX / HERMAN G. WEINBERG = 65 Two: The New American Cinema = 71 A Call for a New Generation of Film-Makers / JONAS MEKAS = 73 For an Uncontrolled Cinema / RICHARD LEACOCK = 76 The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group = 79 To Maya Deren / RUDOLF ARNHEIM = 84 Notes on the New American Cinema / JONAS MEKAS = 87 For Shadows, Against Pull My Daisy / PARKER TYLER = 108 Three: The Commercial Cinema and the Auteur Theory = 119 Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962 / ANDREW SARRIS = 121 The Camera as a God / CHARLES BOULTENHOUSE = 136 Dreyer / KEN KELMAN = 141 Defense of Jayne Mansfield / MICHAEL MCCLURE = 160 Four: The American Avant-Garde = 169 Poetry and the Film: A Symposium with Maya Deren, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Parker Tyler. Chairman, Willard Maas. / AMOS VOGEL. = 171 Imagism in Four Avant-Garde Films / P. ADAMS SITNEY = 187 Interview with Stan Brakhage / P. ADAMS SITNEY = 201 The Birth Film / JANE BRAKHAGE = 230 Respond Dance / STAN BRAKHAGE = 234 On The Art of Vision / ROBERT KELLY = 258 Harry Smith Interview / P. ADAMS SITNEY = 260 Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising / CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN = 277 Smith Myth / KEN KELMAN = 280 Interview with Peter Kubelka / JONAS MEKAS = 285 Some Notes on Sleep / HI^NRY GELDZAHLER = 300 The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson / GENE YOUNGBLOOD = 302 Notes on Some New Movies and Happiness / JONAS MEKAS = 317 Structural Film / P. ADAMS SITNEY = 326 On "Structural Film" (by P. Adams Sitney) / GEORGE MACIUNAS = 349 Five: Overviews and Theoretical Considerations = 351 The Writings of Dziga Vertov = 353 Orson Welles and the Big Experimental Film Cult / PARKER TYLER = 376 Classic Plastics (and Total Tectonics) / KEN KELMAN = 387 The Image of the Body / ROBERT KELLY = 393 A Note on Comedy in Experimental Film / SIDNEY PETERSON = 398 Film and the Radical Aspiration / ANNETTE MICHELSON = 404 Appendix: The Independent Film Award = 423 Index = 430

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