Lovers of cinema
Subtitle: the first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945
By: edited by Jan-Christopher Horak.
Contributors: Horak, Jan-Christopher.
Series: Wisconsin studies in film
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Experimental films -- United States -- History and criticism
Other titles: First American film avant-garde, 1919-1945.
Notes: Filmography: p. 363-382.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : history in the gaps ; The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak; title: The limits of experimentation in Hollywood / Kristin Thompson; title: Robert Florey and the Hollywood avant-garde / Brian Taves; title: American in Paris : Man Ray and Dudley Murphy / William Moritz; title: Startling angles : amateur film and the early avant-garde / Patricia R. Zimmerman; title: U.S. modernism and the emergence of "the right wing of film art" : the films of James Sibley Watson, Jr., and Melville Webber / Lisa Cartwright; title: Theodore Huff : historian and filmmaker / Chuck Kleinhans; title: Ralph Steiner / Scott MacDonald; title: Straight shots and crooked plots : social documentary and the avant-garde in the 1930s / Charles Wolfe; title: Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta / Jan-Christopher Horak; title: The city viewed : the films of Leyda, Brownying, and Weinberg / William Uricchio; title: Mary Ellen Bute / Lauren Rabinovitz; title: Machines that give birth to images : Douglass Crockwell / Tom Gunning.