Visionary Film has remained the standard text on the American avant-garde cinema since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the major filmmakers since Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made their dreamlike film "Meshes of the Afternoon" in 1943. Sitney also identifies the emergence and flowering of a new genre, which he calls Menippean Satire. Thsi edition also includes a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos which had been dropped from the second edition.
- ISBN10 0195017617
- ISBN13 9780195017618
- Publish Date July 1974
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 November 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 464
- Language English