P. Adams Sitney: Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000 (1974–)

26 August 2009, dusan

Visionary Film has remained the standard text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the major filmmakers since Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made their dreamlike film “Meshes of the Afternoon” in 1943. Sitney also identifies the emergence and flowering of a new genre, which he calls Menippean Satire. This edition also includes a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos which had been dropped from the second edition.”

First published as Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, Oxford University Press, 1974.

Second edition
Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978
Publisher Oxford University Press, 1979
xiv+463 pages

Third edition
Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2002
ISBN 019514886X, 9780195148862
xvi+462 pages

Publisher

2nd edition: PDF (73 MB, added on 2020-9-18)
3rd edition: PDF, EPUB (updated on 2019-11-15)

See also Sitney’s Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson, 2008.


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