P. A. Sitney. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde,1943-2000

    From Maya Deren to Su Friedrich, passing by Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Yvonne Rainer ou Michael Snow, the book of P. Adams Sitney traces a half of a century of american avant-garde cinema analysing in detail the main films of the most important caracters. The theoretical and historical dimension at the same time of the Visionary Film, in it's third edition entirely reviewed and supplemented, first in french, makes this book an essential reference of this subject. Largely illustrated, this publication adresses a profesional as well as an amateur.