Item #E25515 Underground Film: A Critical History. Parker Tyler.

Underground Film: A Critical History

New York: Grove Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Hardcover. 249 pp. with filmography 1915-196. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in very good dust jacket, small scraped arear front panel from a sticker removal. A definitive history of the experimental film movement from the silent era through the end of the 1960s. The author was the first critic to write seriously about the early Underground filmmakers such as Brakhage, Peterson, Markopoulos, Maas, and Deren> heer he assesses their work along with that of Anger, Warhol, Emshwiller, VanDerBeek, Boultenhouse and others. Discussing specific films, he shows the variety of then-current aims and techniques and traces their origins to Dada and Surrealism in the classics of Bunuel, Clair, Eisenstein, and Wiene. Fine / very good. Item #E25515

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