In spite of the difficulty of most American avant-garde films, one can read volumes and find almost no mention of how to view these films. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order addresses precisely this question: how--and to what extent--can viewers make sense of American avant-garde films? It is a controversial book that examines the implicit assumptions of traditional scholarship, advocates on alternative to dominant approaches to the avant-garde cinema, and questions some long-standing cliches about the history of the avant-garde.
- ISBN13 9780814324578
- Publish Date 31 January 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wayne State University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 212
- Language English