Congrats. I may be missing it, but I haven't been able to discover a table of contents or list of contributors on either website. Can you share that?
Thanks! Chris > Announcement! > > I¹m working on finding more places to buy it than Amazon, starting with > Los > Angeles area bookstores & museums. If I learn more online sellers, I will > pass on the word. > > 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 Alternative Projections includes reprints of rare historical documents by 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 > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
