Alternative projections : experimental film in Los Angeles 1945-1980 / edited by David E. James and Adam Hyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pacific Standard Time (Project), Content Provider.

James, David E., editor.

Hyman, Adam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--United States.

Experimental films.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Barnet, Herts, [England] : John Libbey Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, together with newly-commissioned essays, an account of the screening series, reprints of historical documents by and about experimental filmmakers in the region, and other rare photographs and ephemera. The resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection is of great importance, not simply for its relevance to Los Angeles, but also for its general discoveries and projections about alternative cinemas.

Contents:

Foreword / Adam Hyman

Introduction / David E. James

Historical materials. Introduction / David E. James

Distribution center for experimental films / Curtis Harrington

Personal chronicle : the making of an experimental film / Curtis Harrington

A letter from the West Coast / Robert Pike

Amateur vs. professional / Maya Deren

Personal state meant / John Fles

A statement / Curtis Harrington

Are movies junk / John Fles

Los Angeles Film Festival / Jack Hirschman

Seeing is believing / John Fles

Underground movies rise to the surface / Kevin Thomas

Students reflect future of cinema / Gene Youngblood

Woman as ethnographic filmmaker / Chick Strand

Mouse enigma : auto-history of a film person / Peter Mays

Scholarship. Introduction / David E. James

Scarlet woman on film : Inauguration of the pleasure dome and The Wormwood Star : Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington, Marjorie Cameron, and Los Angeles alternative film and culture in the early 1950's / Alice Hutchison

Against transparency : Jonas Mekas, Vernon Zimmerman, and the West Coast contribution to the new American cinema / Josh Guilford

Vicarious Vicario : restocking John Vicario's forgotten Shoppers market (1963) / Ken Eisenstein

Raymond Rohauer and the Society of Cinema Arts (1948-1962) : giving the devil his due / Tim Lanza

For love and/or money : exhibiting avant-garde film in Los Angeles 1960-1980 / Alison Kozberg

Kent Mackenzie's The exiles : reinventing the real of cinema / Ross Lipman

Taylor Mead, a faggot in Venice Beach in 1961 / Marc Siegel

Ed Ruscha's moving pictures / Matt Reynolds

Asco's Super-8 cinema and the specter of muralism / Jesse Lerner

Inner-city symphony : Water ritual #1 : an urban rite of purification / Veena Hariharan

Not just a day job : experimental filmmakers and the special effects industry in the 1970's and 1980's / Julie Turnock

Storm, stress, and structure : the collaborative cinema of Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren / Juan Carlos Kase

Nun notes and deviant longings / Erika Suderburg

Currents direct and alternating : Water and power and other works by Pat O'Neill / Grahame Weinbren

Screenings. Alternative projections screenings series / Adam Hyman.

Notes:

"Alternative Projections was part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brought together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California in 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene"--Title page recto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2015).

ISBN:

0-86196-909-X

OCLC:

911594568