P Adams Sitney: 3 books
Vital Crises in Italian Cinema
Iconography, Stylistics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P. Adams Sitney provides a stylish, historically rich survey of the epochal films made by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others in the years after World...
Eyes Upside Down
Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World...
Visionary Film
The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974....