Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema

Reekie, Duncan

ISBN 10: 190567421X / ISBN 13: 9781905674213

Published by London and New York. Wallflower Press, 2007

About this Item

London and New York. Wallflower Press. Soft Covers. Condition. Fine. The indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold story that includes the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic "art versus commerce" discourses, Subversion not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of nineteenth-century Paris and the fair booths of medieval London, but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
• Publisher: London and New York. Wallflower Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190567421X
• ISBN 13: 9781905674213
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema is the indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold story that includes the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic "art versus commerce" discourses, Subversion not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London, but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.

About the Author

Duncan Reekie is a filmmaker, performer, and Underground Cinema activist.