A history of experimental film and video : from the canonical avant-garde to contemporary British practice / A.L. Rees.

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Introduction: Sitting the avant-garde ; Vision machine ; Time base ; Point of view ; Modernisms -- The canonical avant-garde: Origins of the moving image (1780-1880) ; Photography ; Art and the avant-garde : summary 1909-20 ; The Cubists ; Primitives and pioneers (1880-1915) ; Futurists ; Abstract film ; The comic burlesque ; The art cinema and its circuit ; Cine-poems and lyric abstraction ; Origins of abstract film ; The absolute film ; Cubism and popular film ; Dada and surrealist film ; The French avant-garde 1924-32 ; Voice and vision in the pre-war avant-garde ; Transition : into the 1930s and documentary ; Reviewing the first avant-garde ; Underground ; Two avant-gardes (mark 1)? ; Structural -- Britain, 1966-98: English structuralists ; Primitives and post-structuralists ; Video stirs ; Art and politics ; A cinema of small gestures ; Rebel waves ; Art cinema´s odd couple : Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway ; New pluralism ; Black British ; Electronic arts ; yBa ; Where are we now? ; Points of resistance -- Conclusion: In the gallery and on the air: The migrating frame from film to video ; Topologies ; The origins of the avant-garde and current practice.