Thanks to everyone who had titles to add! Here's the compiled list: *Histories of avant-garde film in the United States:*
Lewis Jacobs, “Experimental Cinema in America 1921-1947” in *The Rise of the American Film* (1948) Roger Manvell, *Experiment in the Film* (1949) Robert Pike, A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement (UCLA dissertation, 1960) Gregory Battcock, *The New American Cinema* (1967) Sheldon Renan, *An Introduction to the American Underground Film *(1967) Parker Tyler, *The Underground Film: A Critical History* (1968) Gene Youngblood, *Expanded Cinema* (1970) P. Adams Sitney, ed., *Film Culture Reader* (1970) David Curtis, *Experimental Cinema *(1971) Annette Michelson, *Artforum: Structural Film (special issue), September 1971* Jonas Mekas, *Movie Journal* (1972) Annette Michelson, *New Forms in Film. Montreux, August 3/24 1974* (catalog, 1974) P. Adams Sitney, *Visionary Film* (1974) P. Adams Sitney, ed. *The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of the Anthology Film Archives* (1975) Standish Lawder, *The Cubist Cinema* (1975) Stephen Dwoskin, *Film Is: The International Free Cinema* (1975) Amos Vogel, *Film as a Subversive Art* (1976) Robert Russett & Cecile Starr, *Experimental Animation* (1977) Malcolm Le Grice, *Abstract Film and Beyond* (1977) Maureen Turim, *Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films* (1978/85) Dominique Noguez, *Une renaissance du cinéma : le cinéma "underground" américain* (1985, reprinted 2002) David E. James, *Allegories of Cinema* (1989) Stan Brakhage, *Film at Wit’s End* (1989) Patricia Mellencamp, *Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, & Feminism* (1990) William Wees, *Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film *(1992) David James, *To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the NY Underground* (1992) Bart Testa, *Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde* (1992) Scott MacDonald, *Avant-Garde Film Motion Studies* (1993) William C. Wees, *Recycled Images* (1993) James Peterson, *Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order* (1994) Robert Haller, *First Light: Abstract Light Forms* (1998) Jan-Christopher Horak, *Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945* (1998) Joan Hawkins, *Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde* (2000) Bruce Posner, *Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941* (2001) Bill Nichols, *Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde* (2001) Scott MacDonald, *The Garden in the Machine. A Field Guide to Independent Films About Place* (2001) Chrissie Iles, *Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977* (2001) Lauren Rabinovitz,* Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-71* (2003) David E. James, *The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles* (2005) Jeffrey Skoller, *Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film* (2005) Paul Arthur, *Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965* (2005) Robert Haller, *Crossroads: Avant-Garde film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s* (2005) Alexander Graf, ed., *Avant-Garde Film (Avant-Garde Critical Studies 23)* (2007) Robin Blaetz, *Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks* (2007) P. Adams Sitney, *Eyes Upside Down* (2008) Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, eds., *Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973–1990* (2008) Steve Anker, et al, *Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000* (2010) Dominique Noguez, *Eloge du cinéma expérimental *(3rd ed., 2010) A. L. Rees, *A History of Experimental Film and Video* (2011) A. L. Rees, et al, *Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film* (2011) Adeline Coffinier & Victor Gresard, *Film Culture Index 1955-1996* (2012) Erika Balsom, *Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art* (2013) P. Adams Sitney, ed. *The Collected Writings of Gregory Markopolous* (2014) Michael Betancourt Savannah, GA USA michaelbetancourt.com twitter.com/cinegraphic | vimeo.com/cinegraphic www.cinegraphic.net | the avant-garde film & video blog
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