P. Adams Sitney, the leading critic of personal and experimental cinema in America, picks up where he left off in his landmark book, Visionary Film. This all new work offers in-depth analysis of eleven central filmmakers of the American avant-garde cinema, drawing on the aesthetic articulated by Emerson and theorized by John Cage, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein. Introduction: Emersonian Poetics
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1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera
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2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition
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3 Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence
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4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film
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5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative
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6 Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe
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7 Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present the Present in the Past
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8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence
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9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought
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10 Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto
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11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes
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12 Frampton's Magellan
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13 Abigail Child: Textual Self-Reliance
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14 Su Friedrich: "Giving Birth to Myself"
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15 Brakhage: Meditative Cinema
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16 Beavers's Third Cycle: The Theater of Gesture
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17 Mekas's Retrospection
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Conclusion: Perfect Exhilaration
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Appendix: Chronology of Films
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Index
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