A history of experimental film and video : from the canonical avant-garde to contemporary British practice /: from the canonical avant-garde to contemporary British practice. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: A.L. Rees.
• Other Names: Rees, A. L; British Film Institute.
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Sitting the Avant-Garde -- Vision Machine -- Time Base -- Point of View -- Modernisms -- PART I: TTHE CANONICAL AVANT-GARDE -- Origins of the Moving Image (1780-1880) -- Photography -- Art and the Avant-Garde: Summary 1909-20 -- The Cubists -- Primitives and Pioneers (1880-1915) -- Futurists -- Abstract Film -- The Comic Burlesque -- The Art Cinema and its Circuit -- Cine-Poems and Lyric Abstraction -- Origins of Abstract Film -- The Absolute Film -- Cubism and Poular Film -- Dada and Surrealist Film -- The French Avant-Garde 1924-32 -- Voice and Vision in the Pre-War Avant-Garde -- Transition: into the 1930s and Documentary -- Reviewing the First Avant-Garde -- Underground -- Two Avant-Gardes (Mark 1)? -- Structural -- PART II: BRITAIN, 1966-98 -- English Structuralists -- Primitives and Post-Structralists -- Video Stirs -- Art and Politics -- A cinema of Small Gestures -- Rebel Waves -- Art Cinema's Odd Couple: Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway -- New Pluralism -- Black British -- Electronic Arts -- yBa -- "Where are we now?" -- Points of Resistance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: London : British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 791.436110941; Experimental films -- History and criticism; Experimental films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838714185; 1838714189; 9781838714192
• Related ISBNs: 9781844574360; 9781844574377
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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