Lovers of cinema : the first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 /

Other Authors: Horak, Jan-Christopher.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : history in the gaps ; The first American filmavant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak
  • The limits ofexperimentation in Hollywood / Kristin Thompson
  • Robert Florey andthe Hollywood avant-garde / Brian Taves
  • American in Paris : Man Rayand Dudley Murphy / William Moritz
  • Startling angles : amateur filmand the early avant-garde / Patricia R. Zimmerman
  • U.S. modernism andthe emergence of "the right wing of film art" : the films of JamesSibley Watson, Jr., and Melville Webber / Lisa Cartwright
  • TheodoreHuff : historian and filmmaker / Chuck Kleinhans
  • Ralph Steiner /Scott MacDonald
  • Straight shots and crooked plots : socialdocumentary and the avant-garde in the 1930s / Charles Wolfe
  • PaulStrand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta / Jan-Christopher Horak
  • Thecity viewed : the films of Leyda, Brownying, and Weinberg / WilliamUricchio
  • Mary Ellen Bute / Lauren Rabinovitz
  • Machines that givebirth to images : Douglass Crockwell / Tom Gunning.