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Bibliography

Publications on individual filmmakers are included in their respective pages.

Maya Deren, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, 1946. Download.

Stan Brakhage, Metaphors on Vision, 1963. Download.

Sheldon Renan, An Introduction to the American Underground Film, 1967. View online.

Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, 1970. Download.

Annette Michelson (ed.), Artforum: Special Issue on Film (September 1971). Download.

Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art, 1974. Download.

Peter Gidal (ed.), Structural Film Anthology, 1976. Download.

Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975, 1979. Download.

Hollis Frampton, Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981, 1983. Download.

R. Bruce Elder, Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, 2008. Download.

P. Adams Sitney, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson, 2008. Download.

Journals and Magazines

Kinofon, edited by Branko Ve Poljanski and Dragan Aleksić in 12 issues, Zagreb, 1921-22.
Kino-fot, edited by Aleksei Gan in six issues, Moscow, 1922-23.
Experimental Cinema, Philadelphia, PA: Cinema Crafters of America, 1930-34. Monthly.
f.a. [Art Film], *1937, journal of the SAF co-operative, edited by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson.
Film Culture, New York, 1955–1996.
- Adams P. Sitney (ed.), Film Culture Reader, Cooper Square Press, 1970; 2nd Ed., 2000.
- UbuWeb, Anthology Film Archives (eds.), "Selections from Film Culture Magazine, 1955-1996".
Cinim magazine, 3 issues, 1967-1969.
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. Founded in 1974, 50+ issues. Edited by John Hess, Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage.
Millennium Film Journal, published biannually since 1978. Currently edited by Grahame Weinbren and Kenneth White.
Underground Film Journal.
More.

Catalogues and Brochures

Birgit Hein, Wulf Herzogenrath, Film als Film: 1910 bis heute, Cologne, 1977. (in German)
Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979, 152 pp.
Dominique Noguez, Trente ans de cinéma expérimental en France, 1950-1980, Paris: A.R.C.E.F., 1982, 117 pp. (in French) [1]
Eugeni Bonet, Manuel Palacio (eds.), Practica Filmica y Vanguardia Artistica en Espana / The Avant-garde Film in Spain: 1925-1981, Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983. (in Spanish)
Miklós Peternák (ed.), Film / Művészet: A magyar kísérleti film története. Budapest, 1983. (in Hungarian)
Prosper Hillairet, Christian Lebrat, Patrice Rollet, Paris vu par le cinéma d'avant-garde (1923-1983), Paris: Paris expérimental, 1985. (in French) [2]
Paul de Mol, Nelly Voorhuis (eds.), Het Experiment in de Nederlandse Film, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1985. (in Dutch)
David Schwartz (ed.), Independent America: New Film 1978-1988, New York: American Museum of the Moving Image, 1988, 93 pp.
Eugeni Bonet (ed.), Desmontaje: film, vídeo/apropiación, reciclaje, IVAM, 1993. (in Spanish). Introduction and Bonet's essay, Screening programme, [3].
Gerald O’Grady, Bruce Posner (eds.), Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America, Boston: Harvard Film Archive & Anthology Film Archives, 1995, 16 pp.
Nicole Brenez, Christian Lebrat (eds.), Jeune, dure et pure! A history of avant-garde and experimental film in France. Une histoire du cinéma d'avant-garde et expérimental en France, Paris and Milan: Cinémathèque française/Mazzotta, 2000; repr. in Senses of Cinema 6. (in French/English) [4] [5]
Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative and British Avant-Garde Film 1966-1976, London: Lux, 2002.
Gerda Cammaer (ed.), Placing spaces, spacing places: Canadian experimental films & videos of the 1990s, Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2003.
Esther Schlicht, Max Hollein (eds.), Zelluloid: Camera Less Film / Celluloid: Film ohne Kamera, Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2010. (in English/German)
Anna Abrahams, Claartje Opdam, Mariska Graveland, film3 [‘kju:bIk fIlm], Amsterdam: EYE Film Institute Netherlands & Amsterdam University Press, 2010, 390 pp. (in English/Dutch) [6]
Ana Janevski (ed.), As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film: Experiment in the Art of Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2010.
Bojana Piškur, et al. (eds.), This Is All Film: Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951-1991 / Vse to je film: Eksperimentalni film v Jugoslaviji 1951-1991, catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2010, 154 pp.
Alina Ignatova (ed.), Expanded Cinema / Расширенное кино, Moscow: MediaArtLab, 2011. (in English/Russian)
Alina Streltsova (ed.), Expanded Cinema 2. Imersions: Towards the Tactile Cinema / Расширенное кино — 2, Moscow: MediaArtLab, 2012, 148 pp. (in English/Russian)
Bruno Di Marino, Marco Meneguzzo, Andrea La Porta (eds.), Lo sguardo espanso. Cinema d'artista italiano 1912-2012, Silvana Editoriale, 2012. (in Italian)
Susanne Pfeffer (ed.), You Killed Me First: The Cinema of Transgression, Berlin: KW Institute of Contemporary Art, and Cologne: Walther Konig, 2012. (in English/German)

Anthologies

Peter Gidal (ed.), Structural Film Anthology, London: British Film Institute, 1976.
P. Adams Sitney (ed.), The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, New York: New York University Press, 1978. Contains the often-hard-to-find theoretical writings of experimental filmmakers, beginning in France in the 1920s and continuing internationally through the 1970s.
Miklós Peternák (ed.), F:I.L.M. A magyar avantgarde film története és dokumentumai, Budapest: Jelenkor, 1991. (in Hungarian)
Wheeler Winston-Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.), Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Covers the field of experimental and avant-garde cinema from the 1920s onward, concentrating on movements and varied key figures, with a concentration on issues such as gender, sexuality, and race, as well as the impact of technological innovation.
Jackie Hatfield (ed.), Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology, Eastleigh: John Libbey Pub., 2006.

Monographs, Edited books

Maya Deren, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, Yonkers/NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946, 52 pp.
- Écrits sur l'art et le cinéma, trans. Éric Alloi and Julie Beaulieu, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2004, 120 pp. Contains a translation of "The creative use of Cinematography as the reality" (1960) as well. (in French) [7] [8]
Frank Stauffacher (ed.), Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film Together with Program Notes and References for Series one of Art in Cinema, San Francisco: Art in Cinema Society, 1947.
Roger Manvell (ed.), Experiment in the Film, London: Grey Walls Press, 1949, 285 pp.
Stan Brakhage, Metaphors on Vision, Film Culture, 1963. Edited with an Introduction by P. Adams Sitney.
Sheldon Renan, An Introduction to the American Underground Film, New York: Dutton, 1967.
Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema, New York: Dutton, 1970. With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller.
Parker Tyler, Underground Film: A Critical History, New York: Grove Press, 1970.
Birgit Hein, Film im Underground. Von seinen Anfangen bis zum Unabhangigen Kino, Frankfurt/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, 1971. (in German)
David Curtis, Experimental Cinema: A Fifty Year Evolution, London, Studio Vista, 1971. [9]
Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971, New York: Macmillan, 1972, 434 pp. A collection of the columns written for the Village Voice beginning in 1958 under the title "Movie Journal" by a filmmaker who is also one of the founders of the journal Film Culture (1955–1996), the Film-Maker’s Co-op, and Anthology Film Archives.
- Ciné-Journal: Un nouveau cinéma américain (1959-1971), trans. Dominique Noguez, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992, 400 pp. (in French) [10]
Gottfried Schlemmer (ed.), Avantgardistischer Film 1951-1971, Theorie, Munich: Hanser, 1973. (in German)
Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art, C. T. Editions, 1974. [11] [12]
Hans Scheugl, Ernst Schmidt jr., Eine Subgeschichte des Films. Lexikon des Avantgarde-, Experimental- und Undergroundfilms, Band 1 und 2, Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974. (in German)
Jean Mitry, Le Cinema Experimental: Histoire et Perspectives, Paris: Seghers, 1974. (in French)
- Storia del cinema sperimentale, Clueb, 2006, 214 pp. (in Italian)
Stephen Dwoskin, Film is ...: The International Free Cinema, London: Owen, 1975.
P. Adams Sitney (ed.), The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives, New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1975. Essays by filmmakers and scholars of the avant-garde, written with a wide range of approaches ranging from the theoretical to the purely personal, intended to reinforce appreciation of the films chosen by the archive for inclusion in its Essential Cinema Collection.
Viktoria Hradská, Česká avantgarda a film, Prague: Čs. filmový ústav, 1976. (in Czech)
Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond, MIT Press, 1977.
Dominique Noguez, Éloge du cinéma expérimental: Definitions, Jalons, Perspectives, Paris: Paris expérimental and Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979; 3rd Edition, 2010. (in French) [13]
Ulrich Gregor (ed.), The German Experimental Film of the Seventies, Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1980.
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000, Oxford University Press, 1974; Third edition, 2002.
- Le cinéma visionnaire: L'Avant-garde américaine (1943-2000), trans. Pip Chodorov and Christian Lebrat, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2002, 448 pp. (in French) [14]
Martin Walsh, The Brechtian aspect of radical cinema, London: BFI Publishing, 1981.
Hollis Frampton, Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp. Foreword by Annette Michelson.
Inez Hedges, Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1983.
Andere Avant Garde, Linz: Gutenberg, 1984. (in German)
Maureen Cheryn Turim, Abstraction in Avant-garde Films, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1985.
Jairo Ferreira, Cinema de Invenção, Sao Paulo: Editora Max Limonad, 1986. (in Portuguese) [15]
Helge Krarup, Carl Norrested, Eksperimentalfilm i Danmark, Copenhagen: Borgen, 1986. (in Danish)
Fernao Ramos, Cinema Marginal, 1968-1973: A Representacao em seu Limite, Sao Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1987. (in Portuguese)
Stan Brakhage, Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-garde Filmmakers, Kingston, N.Y.: Documentext, 1989.
Ingo Petzke (ed.), Das Experimentalfilm-Handbuch, Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filminstitut, 1989, 385 pp. (in German) [16]
Peter Gidal, Materialist Film, London and New York: Routledge, 1989. [17]
Marcin Giżycki, Walka o film artystyczny w miedzynarodowej Polsce. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw, 1989. (in Polish)
Eduard Ditschek, Politisches Engagement und Medienexperiment: Theater und Film der Russischen und Deutschen Avantgarde der Zwanziger Jahre, Tübingen: Narr, 1989, 306 pp. (in German) Contents.
David E. James, Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties, Princeton University Press, 1989, 408 pp.
P. Adams Sitney, Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Patricia Mellencamp, Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video & Feminism, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Lauren Rabinovitz, Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991; 2nd ed., 2003. [18]
Stanislav Ulver, Západní filmová avantgarda, Prague: ČFÚ, 1991. (in Czech)
William C. Wees, Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film, University of California Press, 1992.
Frederique Devaux, Le cinéma Lettriste: 1951-1991, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992. (in French) [19]
David E. James (ed.), To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground, University of Princeton Press, 1992, 352 pp. [20]
Scott MacDonald, Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Germaine Dulac, Écrits sur le cinéma, 1919-1937, ed. Prosper Hillairet, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1994, 225 pp. Anthology of Dulac's writings with contextual essay. (in French) [21]
Edward S. Small, Direct Theory: Experimental Film/Video as Major Genre, SIU Press, 1994, 122 pp.
James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avante-garde Cinema, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.
Jan-Christopher Horak (ed.), Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. [22]
Peter Weiss, Avantgarde Film, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995. (in German)
Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), Dada and Surrealist Film, MIT Press, 1996.
Marcin Giżycki, Awangarda wobec kina. Film w kręgu polskiej awangardy artystycznej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego, Wydawnictwo male, Warsaw, 1996. (in Polish) [23] [24]
Karin Fritsche, Claus Löser (eds.), Gegenbilder - Filmische Subversion in der DDR 1976-1989, Berlin: Janus Press, 1996. [25], Review. (in German)
Christian Lebrat, Entre les images, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1997, 100 pp. (in French) [26]
Il cinema d'avanguardia: 1910-1930, Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. (in Italian)
Wheeler W. Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Robert A. Haller (ed.), First Light, New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998, 108 pp.
Beatriz Sarlo Sabajanes, La maquina cultural: maestras, traductores y vanguardistas, Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1998. (in Spanish)
Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, 5 vols, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988–2005. Five volumes of in-depth, perceptive, enlightening interviews with a multitude of filmmakers offer a veritable history of the field. The author’s overriding concern is with experimental cinema as a form of critique of conventional media.
A. L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video: From Canonical Avant-garde to Contemporary British Practice, London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Emanuel Levy, Cinema of outsiders: the rise of American independent film, New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Bruno Di Marino, Sguardo inconscio azione: cinema sperimentale e underground a Roma: 1965-1975, Rome: Lithos, 1999. (in Italian)
Joan M Minguet Batllori, Cinema, modernitat i avantguarda (1920-1936), Valencia: E. Climent, 2000. (in Spanish)
Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, Duke University Press, 2000, 320 pp. Excerpt, [27].
Scott MacDonald, The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place, University of California Press, 2001, 487 pp. [28]
Barbara Wilinsky, Sure Seaters: the emergence of art house cinema, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Hans Scheugl, Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahre, Vienna, 2002. (in German)
Nina Danino, Michael Maziere (eds.), The Undercut reader: critical writings on artists' film and video, London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
Maurice Lemaitre, 1967-1969, le cafe-cinema Lemaitre : suivi de Huit filmes lettristes, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2003. (in French)
Michael O'Pray, Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions, London/New York: Wallflower, 2003.
Anna Abrahams, Mariska Graveland, Erwin van 't Hart, Peter van Hoof, MM2. Experimental film in the Netherlands since 1960, Amsterdam: Filmbank & De Balie, 2004, 286 pp. [29]
Jeffrey Skoller, Shadows, Specters, Shards. Making History in Avant-Garde Film, University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 233 pp.
David E. James, The Most Typical Avant-garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2005, 548 pp. Review.
Paul Arthur, A line of sight: American avant-garde film since 1965, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Jean Petrolle, Virginia Wright Wexman (eds.), Women and Experimental Filmmaking, Urbana: University of Illinois, 2005. [30]
Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang (eds.), From underground to independent: alternative film culture in contemporary China, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Robin Blaetz (ed.), Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Introduction, Essay by Janet Cutler, [31], [32].
Malte Hagener, Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939, Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 376 pp.
Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.), Avant-garde Film, Rodopi, 2007. Result of a research project at the University of Edinburgh that aims to connect the history of avant-garde film to the wider avant-garde in literature and art. It establishes a continuum between the contemporary moving image and the classical experimental film that preceded it from the 1920s onward.
Łukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang (eds.), 1,2,3... Avant-Gardes: Film/Art between Experiment and Archive, Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, and Berlin/New York: Sternberg, 2007. (in English/German) [33]
Duncan Reekie, Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema, London: Wallflower Press 2007.
P. Adams Sitney, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson, 2008.
Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingröver (eds.), After the avant-garde : contemporary German and Austrian experimental film, Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2008.
R. Bruce Elder, Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
Daniel Barnett, Movement as Meaning: In Experimental Film, Rodopi, 2008, 240 pp.
Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingroever (eds.), After the Avant-Garde: German and Austrian Experimental Film, Camden House, 2008.
Hollis Frampton, On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton, ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp. [34]
Jean-Paul Aubert, L'école de Barcelone : un cinéma d'avant-garde en Espagne sous le franquisme, Paris: Harmattan, 2009. (in French)
Paul Young, Paul Duncan (eds.), Art Cinema, Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. [35]
- La cinéma expérimental, Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. (in French) [36]
Gabriele Jutz, Cinéma brut. Eine alternative Genealogie der Filmavantgarde, Springer, 2010, 295 pp. (in German)
Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid (eds.), Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, University of California Press, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2010, 352 pp. [37] [38] [39]
Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art, Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [40]
Malcolm Turvey, The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s, MIT Press, 2011.
Pavle Levi, Cinema by Other Means, Oxford University Press, 2012, 224 pp.
Adriano Aprà (ed.), Fuori norma. La via sperimentale del cinema italiano, Marsilio, 2013, 208 pp. (in Italian)

Journal issues

Annette Michelson (ed.), Artforum: Special Film Issue (September 1971).
Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Piotr Krajewski (eds.), Widok 1: "From Absolute Cinema to Future Film. Materials from the history of experiment in the moving picture art", Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2009.
Kino-Integral 11-21 (2011): "Prispevki k zgodovini slovenskega eksperimentalnega filma". Issue on the history of Slovenian experimental film. (in Slovenian) [41]

Mailing lists

Frameworks. Started by Pip Chodorov of Re:Voir in Paris; unmoderated. Archives.

Theses

Ansje van Beusekom, Film als kunst. Reacties op een nieuw medium in Nederland, 1895-1940, Vrije Universiteit, 1998, 336 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. (in Dutch)
Carlos Kase, A Cinema of Anxiety: American Experimental Film in the Realm of Art (1965-75), University of Southern California, 2009. Ph.D. Dissertation.

Documentary films

Die kritische Masse – Film im Underground, Hamburg '68, dir. Christian Bau, 110 min, 1998. [42]
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film, dir. Pip Chodorov, 82 min, 2012. [43]

Bibliographies

Resources

UbuWeb: Film & Video, excellent archive of experimental film and video.
cinovid, database for experimental film and video art.
Electronic Arts Intermix, resource for video and media art, founded in 1971.
LuxOnline, a web resource for exploring British based artists’ film and video in-depth.
- The Luxonline History lists key events, places, people and exhibitions which have contextualised and contributed to the development of artists' film and video from the past century to the current day.
Visionary Film: Avant-Garde Cinema / Experimental Film, web resource founded in 2006.
The iotaCenter, resource on visual music, founded in 1994.
Center for Visual Music.
Moving Image Source's Research Guide on Experimental and Avant-garde
Experimental Cinema, news and resources on experimental film.
Flicker, further links to sites about contemporary and historical experimental cinema.
More.

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 ''Publications on individual filmmakers are included in their respective [[#Pages|pages]].''
 {{Notice|'''How to contribute.''' The following bibliography is made to be an online reader on experimental film as well. A number of included publications is already available online thanks to the publishers, fans, researchers or authors themselves, however we are still missing many of the early writings, the out of print and hard to find catalogues, journals and monographs. You are greatly welcome to contribute to the reader by uploading any missing scans to the wiki or contacting the editor (db at monoskop dot org). Suggestions for omitted works are also appreciated.}}
+[[Image:Deren_Maya_An_Anagram_of_Ideas_on_Art_Form_and_Film.jpg|thumb|258px|Maya Deren, ''An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film'', 1946. [[Media:Deren_Maya_An_Anagram_of_Ideas_on_Art_Form_and_Film.pdf|Download]].]]
 [[Image:Brakhage_Stan_Metaphors_on_Vision.jpg|thumb|258px|Stan Brakhage, ''Metaphors on Vision'', 1963. [[Media:Brakhage_Stan_Metaphors_on_Vision.pdf|Download]].]]
 [[Image:Renan_Sheldon_An_Introduction_to_the_American_Underground_Film.jpg|thumb|258px|Sheldon Renan, ''An Introduction to the American Underground Film'', 1967. [http://archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena View online].]]
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 ===Monographs, Edited books===
+* Maya Deren, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2665 An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film]'', Yonkers/NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946, 52 pp.
+** ''Écrits sur l'art et le cinéma'', trans. Éric Alloi and Julie Beaulieu, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2004, 120 pp. Contains a translation of "The creative use of Cinematography as the reality" (1960) as well. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=50] [http://www.re-voir.com/boutique/product.php?id_product=348&id_lang=1]
 * Frank Stauffacher (ed.), ''Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film Together with Program Notes and References for Series one of Art in Cinema'', San Francisco: Art in Cinema Society, 1947.
-* Roger Manvell, ''[http://archive.org/details/experimentinfilm00unse Experiment in the Film]'', London: Grey Walls Press, 1949.
+* Roger Manvell (ed.), ''[http://archive.org/details/experimentinfilm00unse Experiment in the Film]'', London: Grey Walls Press, 1949, 285 pp.
 * Stan Brakhage, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7736 Metaphors on Vision]'', Film Culture, 1963. Edited with an Introduction by P. Adams Sitney.
 * Sheldon Renan, ''[http://archive.org/details/introductiontoam00rena An Introduction to the American Underground Film]'', New York: Dutton, 1967.
 * Gene Youngblood, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=218 Expanded Cinema]'', New York: Dutton, 1970. With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller.
-* Parker Tyler, ''Underground Film: A Critical History'' New York: Grove Press, 1970.
+* Parker Tyler, ''Underground Film: A Critical History'', New York: Grove Press, 1970.
 * Birgit Hein, ''Film im Underground. Von seinen Anfangen bis zum Unabhangigen Kino'', Frankfurt/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, 1971. (in German)
 * David Curtis, ''Experimental Cinema: A Fifty Year Evolution'', London, Studio Vista, 1971. [http://archive.org/details/structuralCinemaDavidCurtis]
 * Jonas Mekas, ''Movie Journal: The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971'', New York: Macmillan, 1972, 434 pp. A collection of the columns written for the Village Voice beginning in 1958 under the title "Movie Journal" by a filmmaker who is also one of the founders of the journal Film Culture (1955–1996), the Film-Maker’s Co-op, and Anthology Film Archives.
+** ''Ciné-Journal: Un nouveau cinéma américain (1959-1971)'', trans. Dominique Noguez, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992, 400 pp. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=60]
 * Gottfried Schlemmer (ed.), ''Avantgardistischer Film 1951-1971, Theorie'', Munich: Hanser, 1973. (in German)
 * Amos Vogel, ''[[Media:Vogel_Amos_Film_as_a_Subversive_Art.pdf|Film as a Subversive Art]]'', C. T. Editions, 1974. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PduxpGsIGnY&feature=PlayList&p=0918A27EABCC8699&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1] [http://www.angoleiro.com/subversive_nub/]
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 * Viktoria Hradská, ''Česká avantgarda a film'', Prague: Čs. filmový ústav, 1976. (in Czech)
 * Malcolm Le Grice, ''Abstract Film and Beyond'', MIT Press, 1977.
-* Dominique Noguez, ''Éloge du cinéma expérimental: Definitions, Jalons, Perspectives'', Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979; 3rd Edition, 2010. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=31]
+* Dominique Noguez, ''Éloge du cinéma expérimental: Definitions, Jalons, Perspectives'', Paris: Paris expérimental and Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979; 3rd Edition, 2010. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=31]
 * Ulrich Gregor (ed.), ''The German Experimental Film of the Seventies'', Munich: Goethe-Institut, 1980.
 * P. Adams Sitney, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=499 Visionary Film: the American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000]'', Oxford University Press, 1974; Third edition, 2002.
+** ''Le cinéma visionnaire: L'Avant-garde américaine (1943-2000)'', trans. Pip Chodorov and Christian Lebrat, Paris: Paris expérimental, 2002, 448 pp. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=0]
 * Martin Walsh, ''The Brechtian aspect of radical cinema'', London: BFI Publishing, 1981.
 * Hollis Frampton, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=766 Circles of Confusion: Film/Photography/Video Texts 1968-1981]'', Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983, 200 pp. Foreword by Annette Michelson.
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 * Marcin Giżycki, ''Walka o film artystyczny w miedzynarodowej Polsce''. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw, 1989. (in Polish)
 * Eduard Ditschek, ''Politisches Engagement und Medienexperiment: Theater und Film der Russischen und Deutschen Avantgarde der Zwanziger Jahre'', Tübingen: Narr, 1989, 306 pp. (in German) [http://d-nb.info/890788049/04 Contents].
+* David E. James, ''Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties'', Princeton University Press, 1989, 408 pp.
 * P. Adams Sitney, ''Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature'', New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
 * Patricia Mellencamp, ''Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video & Feminism'', Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
-* Lauren Rabinovitz, ''Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71'', Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991; 2nd Edition, 2003. [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83mts2ec9780252071249.html]
+* Lauren Rabinovitz, ''Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71'', Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991; 2nd ed., 2003. [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83mts2ec9780252071249.html]
 * Stanislav Ulver, ''Západní filmová avantgarda'', Prague: ČFÚ, 1991. (in Czech)
 * William C. Wees, ''[http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft438nb2fr&chunk.id=0&toc.depth=100&brand=ucpress Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film]'', University of California Press, 1992.
 * Frederique Devaux, ''Le cinéma Lettriste: 1951-1991'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1992. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=59]
+* David E. James (ed.), ''To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground'', University of Princeton Press, 1992, 352 pp. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5006.html]
 * Scott MacDonald, ''Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies'', Cambridge University Press, 1993.
+* Germaine Dulac, ''Écrits sur le cinéma, 1919-1937'', ed. Prosper Hillairet, Paris: Paris expérimental, 1994, 225 pp. Anthology of Dulac's writings with contextual essay. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=58]
 * Edward S. Small, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2618 Direct Theory: Experimental Film/Video as Major Genre]'', SIU Press, 1994, 122 pp.
 * James Peterson, ''Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avante-garde Cinema'', Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.
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 * Marcin Giżycki, ''Awangarda wobec kina. Film w kręgu polskiej awangardy artystycznej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego'', Wydawnictwo male, Warsaw, 1996. (in Polish) [http://www.polishfilms.org/RecMovies/Awangarda/History.htm] [http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/printIndex.cfm?itemId=432&eventId=691]
 * Karin Fritsche, Claus Löser (eds.), ''Gegenbilder - Filmische Subversion in der DDR 1976-1989'', Berlin: Janus Press, 1996. [http://ex-oriente-lux.net/buch.htm], [http://www.frickfilm.de/Biografie/Stasi/Filmische_Subversion.doc Review]. (in German)
+* Christian Lebrat, ''Entre les images'', Paris: Paris expérimental, 1997, 100 pp. (in French) [http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=26]
 * ''Il cinema d'avanguardia: 1910-1930'', Venezia: Marsilio, 1997. (in Italian)
 * Wheeler W. Dixon, ''The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema'', Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
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 * Bruno Di Marino, ''Sguardo inconscio azione: cinema sperimentale e underground a Roma: 1965-1975'', Rome: Lithos, 1999. (in Italian)
 * Joan M Minguet Batllori, ''Cinema, modernitat i avantguarda (1920-1936)'', Valencia: E. Climent, 2000. (in Spanish)
+* Laura U. Marks, ''[http://store.free-college.org/noleech1.php?hidden=q:/509000/abad90de6deb795a1636189ee70e1c37&hidden0=Laura+U.+Marks+The+Skin+of+the+Film+Intercultural+Cinema,+Embodiment,+and+the+Senses++1999.pdf The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses]'', Duke University Press, 2000, 320 pp. [http://criticalatinoamericana.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/marks_laura.pdf Excerpt], [http://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Skin-of-the-Film/].
+* Scott MacDonald, ''The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place'', University of California Press, 2001, 487 pp. [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520227385]
 * Barbara Wilinsky, ''Sure Seaters: the emergence of art house cinema'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
 * Hans Scheugl, ''Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahre'', Vienna, 2002. (in German)
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 * Anna Abrahams, Mariska Graveland, Erwin van 't Hart, Peter van Hoof, ''MM2. Experimental film in the Netherlands since 1960'', Amsterdam: Filmbank & De Balie, 2004, 286 pp. [http://www.lumen.nu/isabelle.vigier/mm2.html]
 * Jeffrey Skoller, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1032 Shadows, Specters, Shards. Making History in Avant-Garde Film]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 233 pp.
+* David E. James, ''The Most Typical Avant-garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles'', University of California Press, 2005, 548 pp. [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10993 Review].
 * Paul Arthur, ''A line of sight: American avant-garde film since 1965'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
 * Jean Petrolle, Virginia Wright Wexman (eds.), ''Women and Experimental Filmmaking'', Urbana: University of Illinois, 2005. [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029712.html]
 * Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang (eds.), ''From underground to independent: alternative film culture in contemporary China'', Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
-* Robin Blaetz (ed.), ''Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks'', Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. [http://www.dukeupress.edu/Women-and-prime-s-Experimental-Cinema/] [http://scribd.com/doc/93141196]
+* Robin Blaetz (ed.), ''Women's Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks'', Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. [http://reader.dukeupress.edu/womens-experimental-cinema/12 Introduction], [http://sufriedrich.com/PDFs/PDFS%20from%20GEN'L%20books%20%20+%20mags/GEN'L_Cutler_WOMENEXPERIMENTALCINEMA_2007.pdf Essay by Janet Cutler], [http://read.dukeupress.edu/content/womens-experimental-cinema], [http://scribd.com/doc/93141196].
 * Malte Hagener, ''[http://dare.uva.nl/document/171983 Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 376 pp.
 * Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/get?md5=A374B50B0671EF2BAC306D4815BBC682&open=0 Avant-garde Film]'', Rodopi, 2007. Result of a research project at the University of Edinburgh that aims to connect the history of avant-garde film to the wider avant-garde in literature and art. It establishes a continuum between the contemporary moving image and the classical experimental film that preceded it from the 1920s onward.
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 * Hollis Frampton, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11024 On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton]'', ed. Bruce Jenkins, MIT Press, 2009, 360 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/camera-arts-and-consecutive-matters]
 * Jean-Paul Aubert, ''L'école de Barcelone : un cinéma d'avant-garde en Espagne sous le franquisme'', Paris: Harmattan, 2009. (in French)
+* Paul Young, Paul Duncan (eds.), ''Art Cinema'', Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. [http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/film/all/00185/facts.art_cinema.htm]
+** ''La cinéma expérimental'', Taschen, 2009, 192 pp. (in French) [http://www.taschen.com/pages/fr/catalogue/film/all/00185/facts.le_cinema_experimental.htm]
 * Gabriele Jutz, ''[http://libgen.org/get?md5=5c3b5cd3f16689d264e67f06c832f880&open=0 Cinéma brut. Eine alternative Genealogie der Filmavantgarde]'', Springer, 2010, 295 pp. (in German)
+* Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid (eds.), ''Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000'', University of California Press, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2010, 352 pp. [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520249110] [http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/RadicalLight] [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1172]
 * Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm, Astrid Söderbergh Widding, ''[[Media:Andersson_Sundholm_Widding_A_History_of_Swedish_Experimental_Film_Culture_From_Early_Animation_to_Video_Art_no_images.pdf|A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art]]'', Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, 2010. [http://www.kb.se/aktuellt/Butik-och-Publikationer/Mediehistoriskt-arkiv2/Experimental-film/]
 * Malcolm Turvey, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/get?md5=493A858A784B322509C0F23498663C59&open=0 The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s]'', MIT Press, 2011.
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 * Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Piotr Krajewski (eds.), [http://video.wrocenter.pl/media/pdf/WIDOK1_English_wrocenter.pl.pdf ''Widok'' 1: "From Absolute Cinema to Future Film. Materials from the history of experiment in the moving picture art"], Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2009.
 * ''Kino-Integral'' 11-21 (2011): "Prispevki k zgodovini slovenskega eksperimentalnega filma". Issue on the history of Slovenian experimental film. (in Slovenian) [http://www.e-kino.si/2011/no-11-12/kazalo]
+===Mailing lists===
+* [http://www.hi-beam.net/fw.html Frameworks]. Started by [[Pip Chodorov]] of Re:Voir in Paris; unmoderated. [http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/ Archives].
 ===Theses===
 * Ansje van Beusekom, ''[[Media:Van_Beusekom_Ansje_Film_als_kunst_Reacties_op_een_nieuw_medium_in_Nederland_1895-1940.pdf|Film als kunst. Reacties op een nieuw medium in Nederland, 1895-1940]]'', Vrije Universiteit, 1998, 336 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. (in Dutch)
+* Carlos Kase, ''[http://scribd.com/doc/88287183/ A Cinema of Anxiety: American Experimental Film in the Realm of Art (1965-75)]'', University of Southern California, 2009. Ph.D. Dissertation.
 ===Documentary films===
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 * [http://cinemasound.wikispaces.com/Woloshen Steven Woloshen's Selected Bibliography: Experimental Sound in Film]
 * Robin Blaetz, [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0082.xml "Avant-Garde and Experimental Film"], ''Oxford Bibliographies''
+* [http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1876&start=500#p349812 Compiled list of books on experimental film from Frameworks mailing list], 2011. [http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/2011-July/thread.html#4612 Archived discussion].
+* [http://sites.google.com/site/eddietainment/womenscinema Film Aesthetics: Women’s Experimental Cinema course by Ed Halter], 2008.
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