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Best regards, Adam ------------------------ Alternative Projections Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 edited by David E. James and Adam Hyman Indiana University Press http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_7487&products_id= 807551 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0861967151/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8& colid=3E6CS0HPNU8II&coliid=I2JNP6L9JBMPK2 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a ground-breaking anthology of texts and images concerning cinema in Los Angeles in the post-World War II era. The growing recognition that Los Angeles has been the among the most important centers for avant-garde, experimental, and minority filmmaking has provided the ground for a number of recent historiographical, curatorial, and institutional initiatives. Chief among these was an extended collaborative project undertaken by Los Angeles Filmforum, an independent screening organization that has existed continuously since 1975, together with the Getty Foundation¹s Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980, and the University of Southern California¹s School of Cinematic Arts and its Arts and Humanities Initiative, ³Visions and Voices.² The first result of an initial research project was a three-day symposium featuring scholarly presentations, screenings, and discussions with filmmakers held at USC in November 2010, followed the next year by a screening series of some three hundred films and videos, many of them newly discovered and/or restored by the Academy Film Archive.. Concurrently Filmforum undertook an archival research project consisting of nearly forty videotaped and transcribed oral histories conducted with filmmakers, while developing a database with extensive records of independent films, filmmakers, and screenings in Los Angeles . Alternative Projections includes reprints of rare historical documents by and about experimental filmmakers in the region, the conference papers together with specifically commissioned essays, an account of the screening series, and other photographs and ephemera. With contributions from scholars, graduate students, archivists, curators, and filmmakers from three continents, the resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection radically extends film historiography. It is of great importance, not simply for its relevance to Los Angeles, but also for its general discoveries and projections about alternative cinemas. Visit the companion website and film database for Alternative Projections: http://www.alternativeprojections.com Editor Information David E. James is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. Adam Hyman has been Executive Director and Programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum since 2003. A documentary filmmaker, he has produced and/or written a variety of historical and archeological films that have aired on PBS, the History Channel, the Learning Channel, and others. Book Information---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 edited by David E. James and Adam Hyman Co-published with John Libbey Publisher 320 pages, 57 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Paper, ISBN 978-0-86196-715-5 $40.00 £29.99 Publication Date: March 13, 2015 To order: call 1-800-842-6796 or log onto http://iupress.indiana.edu <http://iupress.indiana.edu> Contact: Theresa Halter, Publicity Coordinator, thal...@indiana.edu <mailto:thal...@indiana.edu> , 812-855-8054
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