Underground and Avant‐Garde Cinema

Mathijs, Ernest (author) / Sexton, Jamie (author)

Cult Cinema ; 155-163

2011-05-10

9 pages

9781444396447 , 9781405173742

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396447.ch14

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

underground goes overground, and midnight movies ‐ popularity of midnight movie screenings , Paris, where cinephilia flourished ‐ interwar period, remaining capital of cinephilia to this day , film societies, emergence in interwar period ‐ key factor in cult cinema development , Filmmaker's Cooperative, and Mekas ‐ lower‐budgeted avant‐garde, and experimental films , the American underground, 1950s and 1960s ‐ Manny Farber, using “underground film,” as low‐budget adventure films , underground and avant‐garde cinema ‐ cult cinema, different entity than avant‐garde cinemas , The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, biggest cult film ‐ “the cult par excellence of the little cinema” by Potamkin , cult films, more populist than esoteric marginalia ‐ and avant‐garde and underground films , cult viewing practices, and emergence ‐ art house and repertory cinemas, the United States , the underground today ‐ any film not picked up by distribution company, for conventional theatrical release