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The avant-garde feature film : a critical history /

"Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films, all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films, which often rely on characteristics associated with historical films of the same genre"--P...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verrone, William
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012.
Subjects:
Experimental films > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Avant-garde film: history, theory and criticism. What is an avant-garde film?
  • The historical avant-gardes and the styles of inflence for the avant-garde feature film
  • Case studies
  • The real avant-garde. Some considerations of the inflence of the real avant-garde
  • Case studies
  • The contemporary avant-garde feature film. Underground film and the avant-garde
  • Types of avant-garde feature films
  • The contemporary avant-garde feature film
  • Case studies
  • Conclusion.