Alternative Projections : Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (344 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I: HISTORICAL MATERIALS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Distribution Center for Experimental Films -- Chapter 2 Personal Chronicle: The Making of an Experimental Film -- Chapter 3 A Letter from the West Coast -- Chapter 4 Amateur vs. Professional -- Chapter 5 Personal State Meant -- Chapter 6 A Statement -- Chapter 7 Are Movies Junk -- Chapter 8 Los Angeles Film Festival -- Chapter 9 Seeing Is Believing -- Chapter 10 Underground Movies Rise to the Surface -- Chapter 11 Students Reflect Future of Cinema -- Chapter 12 Woman as Ethnographic Filmmaker -- Chapter 13 Mouse Enigma: Auto-History Of A Film Person -- PART II: SCHOLARSHIP -- Introduction -- Chapter 14 Scarlet Woman on Film: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and The Wormwood Star: Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington, Marjorie Cameron, and Los Angeles Alternative Film and Culture in the Early 1950s -- Chapter 15 Against Transparency: Jonas Mekas, Vernon Zimmerman, and the West Coast Contribution to the New American Cinema -- Chapter 16 Vicarious Vicario: Restocking John Vicario's Forgotten Shoppers Market (1963) -- Chapter 17 Raymond Rohauer and the Society of Cinema Arts (1948-1962): Giving the Devil His Due -- Chapter 18 For Love and/or Money: Exhibiting Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles 1960-1980 -- Chapter 19 Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles: Reinventing the Real of Cinema -- Chapter 20 Taylor Mead, a Faggot in Venice Beach in 1961 -- Chapter 21 Ed Ruscha's Moving Pictures -- Chapter 22 Asco's Super-8 Cinema and the Specter of Muralism -- Chapter 23 Inner-city Symphony: Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification -- Chapter 24 Not Just a Day Job: Experimental Filmmakers and the Special Effects Industry in the 1970s and 1980s. Chapter 25 Storm, Stress, and Structure: The Collaborative Cinema of Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren -- Chapter 26 Nun Notes and Deviant Longings -- Chapter 27 Currents Direct and Alternating: Water and Power and Other Works by Pat O'Neill -- PART III: SCREENINGS -- Chapter 28 Alternative Projections Screenings Series -- Program Notes -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
The resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection is of great importance, not simply for its relevance to Los Angeles, but for its general discoveries and projections about alternative cinemas.