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Summary: A fine historical overview of the avant-garde cinema
Review: O'Pray does an excellent job here--and it's a daunting task. I had been looking (to no avail) for a text about the avant-garde cinema that is suitable for an undergraduate class that I teach. Finally, here it is! It is, necessarily perhaps, a bit too sweeping (and thus at times lacking in detail) in its review of experimental films from the '20s to the present. But O'Pray writes in a clear, accessible style, and though he analyzes few of the films at length or in depth, this kind of analysis can be filled in by the instructor's supplementary handouts and by class discussion. Overall, a highly recommended text for film instructors who teach undergraduate classes in experimental film.
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Summary: A fine historical overview of the avant-garde cinema
Review: O'Pray does an excellent job here--and it's a daunting task. I had been looking (to no avail) for a text about the avant-garde cinema that is suitable for an undergraduate class that I teach. Finally, here it is! It is, necessarily perhaps, a bit too sweeping (and thus at times lacking in detail) in its review of experimental films from the '20s to the present. But O'Pray writes in a clear, accessible style, and though he analyzes few of the films at length or in depth, this kind of analysis can be filled in by the instructor's supplementary handouts and by class discussion. Overall, a highly recommended text for film instructors who teach undergraduate classes in experimental film.
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