Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order
Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema
James Peterson
Paperback
Published: January 1994
ISBN: 9780814324578
Pages: 232 Size: 7 x 10
ISBN: 9780814324578
Pages: 232 Size: 7 x 10
$28.99
In spite of the difficulty of most American avant-garde films, one can read volumes and find almost no mention of how to view these films. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order addresses precisely this question: howand to what extentcan viewers make sense of American avant-garde films? It is a controversial book that examines the implicit assumptions of traditional scholarship, advocates on alternative to dominant approaches to the avant-garde cinema, and questions some long-standing clichés about the history of the avant-garde.
Published by: Wayne State University Press