Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader addresses major movements and key figures of the avant-garde, including filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Isaac Julien and Julie Dash, investigates how underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945
• 2 Notes on the New American Cinema
• 3 The Woman Filmmaker in the New York Avant-Garde
• 4 Women in the Avant-Garde
• 5 Pop, Queer or Fascist? The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising
• 6 Stan Brakhage - the 60th Birthday Interview
• 7 The Perfect Queer Appositeness of
• 8 An Interview with Carolee Schneemann
• 9 The Flower Thief' and The Film Poem: Warhol's early films and the Beat Writers
• 10 Walking on Tin Ice: The Films of Yoko Ono
• 11 Yoko Ono on Yoko Ono Yoko Ono
• 12 Structural Film
• 13 Interview with Michael Snow
• 14 The Films of Warren
• 15 Warren Sonbert Interview
• 16 An Interview with