Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader traces the development of major movements such as the New American Cinema of the 1960s and the Structuralist films of the 1970s, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglectedfilmmakers. Contributors focus on the ways in which underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground important technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video. Each section features an editor's introduction setting debates in their context.Contents1. The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945, by Jan-Christopher Horak2. Notes on the New American Cinema, by Jonas Mekas3. The Woman Filmmaker in the New York Avant-Garde, by Lauren Rabinovitz4. Women in the Avant-Garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnes Varda, Chantal Akerman and Trinh T. Minh-ha, by Judith Mayne5. Pop, Queer or Fascist? The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, by Juan A. Suarez6. Stan Brakhage - The 60th Birthday Interview, by Suranjan Ganguly7. The Perfect Queer Appositeness of Jack Smith, by Jerry Tartaglia8. An Interview with Carolee Schneemann, by Kate Haug9. The Flower Thief and The Film Poem: Warhol's Early Films and the Beat Writers, by Reva Wolf10. Walking on Thin Ice: The Films of Yoko Ono, by Daryl Chin11. Yoko Ono on Yoko Ono, by Yoko Ono12. Structural Film, by P. Adams Sitney13. Interview with Michael Snow, by Scott MacDonald14. The Films of Warren Sonbert, by Phillip Lopate15. Warren Sonbert Interview, by David Ehrenstein16. An Interview with Hollis Frampton, by Peter Gidal17. Re/Constructing Lesbian Auto /Biographies in Tender Fictions and Nitrate Kisses, by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster18. The Films of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich, by Chris Holmlund19. Black Women's Independent Cinema, by Gloria J. Gibson20. Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film, by Kobena Mercer