Subversion: The Definitive History Of Underground Cinema
by Duncan Reekie /
2007 / English / PDF
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Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
is the indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold
story that includes the British independent and French
avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film
movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s,
and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic "art versus commerce"
discourses,
is the indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold
story that includes the British independent and French
avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film
movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s,
and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic "art versus commerce"
discourses,Subversion
Subversion not only discovers the cultural
roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of
nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London,
but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture
separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.
not only discovers the cultural
roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of
nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London,
but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture
separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.