Cinema & the American Avant-garde 9

Lecture on the work of Michael Snow.

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REFERENCES & SUGGESTED READING

Wavelength (Snow, 1967) 43mins

La Région Centrale (Snow, 1971) (5min clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYr_SvIKKuI)

So Is This? (Snow, 1982) (first 10mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6H1KDJ9Ic)

WVLNT (Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time) (Snow, 2003) 15mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0row2iTfU

Drummond, Philip, ‘Notions of Avant-garde Cinema’, in Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film 1910–1975 ed. by Philip Drummond, Deke Dusinberre and A.L. Rees (London: Hayward Gallery, 1979): 9–16.

Hamlyn, Nicky, Film Art Phenomena (London: BFI, 2003).

Le Grice, Malcolm, ‘Snow Perspective and Time’, in Michael Snow Almost Cover to Cover, ed. by Catsou Roberts and Lucy Steeds (London: Black Dog Publishing Ltd., 2001): 110-119.

Lippit, Akira Mazuta, Ex-Cinema From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (University of California Press, 2012)

MacDonald, Scott, Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

---, ‘Interview with Michael Snow’, in Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, ed. by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (London: Routledge, 2002): 239–255.

Mulvey, Laura, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, 16.3, (1975): 6–18.

Sitney, P. Adams, Visionary Film: The American Avant-garde, 1943-2000 (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Taubin, Amy, ‘****’, in Who is Andy Warhol?, ed. by Colin McCabe with Mark Francis and Peter Wollen (London: BFI, 1997): 23–32.

Wees, William C., Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-garde Film (Berkeley, California; Oxford: University of California Press, 1992).

White, Duncan, ‘Degree Zero: Narrative and the Contextual Image’, in Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film ed by A. L. Rees et al. (London: Tate, 2011): 110–124.

Youngblood, Gene, Expanded Cinema (New York: P. Dutton & Co., 1970).

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