Maurice Blanchot

P. Adams Sitney

Writing about The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Hartman suggested that When we come to write the history of criticism for the 1940 to 1980 period, it will be found that Blanchot, together with Sartre, made French 'discourse' possible, both in its relentlessness and its acuity..This selection.is exemplary for its clearly translated and well-chosen excerpts from Blanchot's many influential books. Reading him now, and in this form, I feel once more the excitement of discovering Blanchot in the 1950s.

The Gaze of Orpheus, and Other Literary Essays

De Maya Deren à Su Friedrich en passant par Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Yvonne Rainer ou Michael Snow, le livre de P. Adams Sitney retrace un demi-siècle du cinéma d'avant-garde américain en analysant en détail les films clés de ses principaux protagonistes. La dimension à la fois historique et théorique du Cinéma visionnaire, dans sa troisième édition entièrement revue et augmentée, la première en français, en fait le livre de référence incontournable sur le sujet. Abondamment illustré, cet ouvrage s'adresse au spécialiste comme à l'amateur, dévoilant les multiples facettes de ces films fascinants qui bousculent les définitions mêmes du cinéma.

l'avant-garde Américaine 1943-2000

Le cinéma visionnaire

A Reader of Theory and Criticism

The Avant-garde Film

Iconography, Stylistics, Politics

Vital Crises in Italian Cinema

Examining over twenty key works of the period, Vital Crises in Italian Cinema identifies and explores the major thematic crises at the heart of seminal films produced by the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michael Antonioni, and Federico Fellini.

Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. This book has remained the standard text on American avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once again revised and updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his discussion of the principal genres and major filmmakers up to the year 2000.

The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000

Visionary Film

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.

The Cinema of Poetry

Maya Deren

Filmwise 2

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted to Stan Brakhage and Robert Beavers, two each to Hollis Frampton and Jonas Mekas, and single chapters on Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, Su Friedrich, Ernie Gehr, and Abigail Child, Eyes Upside Down is the fruit of Sitney's lifelong study of visionary aspirations in the American avant-garde cinema.

Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson

Eyes Upside Down

This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.

P. Adams Sitney

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