Polemics for a New Cinema

Thoms, Albie

$150.00

Publisher: Wild & Woolley
Place Published: Sydney
Edition: 1st paperback
Date Published: 1978
Size: 8vo

Collection of writings by Albie Thoms on new cinema in the 1960’s and ’70s, in Europe, USA, and Australia, with chapters on underground and avant-garde movies in West Germany, Austria, San Francisco, Australia, Italy, Holland, etc; followed by essays on movies including Marinetti, Ned Kelly, Attica; sections on the aesthetics of cinema, video, and politics; scarce; Thoms was a film director, writer and producer, notable for his work with Ubu Films, The Sydney Filmmaker’s Co-operative, and The Yellow House; mild bowing to text block, former owner’s name to front endpaper, foxing to text block, toning to edges of pages, o.w. G-VG throughout; wraps a little tanned around edges.

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