Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-343) and index.

Introduction: Toward a New History of the Experimental Cinema -- Pt. 1. Origins of the American Avant-Garde Cinema, 1920-1959 -- 1. The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak -- 2. Notes on the New American Cinema / Jonas Mekas -- 3. The Woman Filmmaker in the New York Avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz -- 4. Women in the Avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnes Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Judith Mayne -- Pt. 2. The 1960s Experimental Cinema Explosion -- 5. Pop, Queer, or Fascist? The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Angers Scorpio Rising / Juan A. Suarez -- 6. Stan Brakhage: The 60[superscript th] Birthday Interview / Suranjan Ganguly -- 7. The Perfect Queer Appositeness of Jack Smith / Jerry Tartaglia -- 8. An Interview with Carolee Schneemann / Kate Haug -- 9. The Flower Thief: The "Film Poem," Warhols Early Films, and the Beat Writers / Reva Wolf -- 10. Walking on Thin Ice: The Films of Yoko Ono / Daryl Chin -- 11. Yoko Ono on Yoko Ono / Yoko Ono -- Pt. 3. Structuralism in the 1970s -- 12. Structural Film / P. Adams Sitney -- 13. Interview with Michael Snow / Scott MacDonald -- 14. The Films of Warren Sonbert / Philip Lopate -- 15. Warren Sonbert Interview / David Ehrenstein -- 16. An Interview with Hollis Frampton / Peter Gidal -- Pt. 4. Alternative Cinemas, 1980-2000 -- 17. Re/Constructing Lesbian Auto/Biographies in Tender Fictions and Nitrate Kisses / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster -- 18. The Flims of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich / Chris Holmlund -- 19. Black Womens Independent Cinema / Gloria J. Gibson -- 20. Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film.