To Free the Cinema
Subtitle: Jonas Mekas & the New York Underground
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: May 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691078946
Subjects: New York; Motion Picture Industry; Motion Pictures Of Specific Genres; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; New York (State); Film - History & Criticism; Biography: film, television & music; Film theory & criticism; Mekas, Jonas; USA; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Criticism and interpretation; 1922-; Experimental films; Mekas, Jonas,
First sentence: A RECENT BOOK on the arts in post-war New York, designed for the coffee table, to be sure, but not without scholarly pretensions, surveyed the city's achievements and legacies in separate essays on its literature, its architecture, its painting, its dance, its theater, its music, and its intellectual life.