In his Village Voice ‎"‎Movie Journal‎"‎ columns‎,‎ Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking‎.‎ Works by Andy Warhol‎,‎ Gregory J‎.‎ Markapoulos‎,‎ Stan Brakhage‎,‎ Jack Smith‎,‎ Robert Breer‎,‎ and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere‎,‎ yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify‎.‎ Mekas incorporated the most essential characteristics of these films into a unique conception of American filmmaking‎'‎s next phase‎.‎ He simplified complex aesthetic strategies for unfamiliar audiences and appreciated the subversive genius of films that many dismissed as trash‎.‎ This new edition presents Mekas‎'‎s original critiques in full‎,‎ with additional material on the filmmakers‎,‎ film studies scholars‎,‎ and popular and avant‎-garde critics whom he inspired and transformed‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Michael Windle
• Publisher‎:‎ MIT Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780231175579