Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film contains all of Deren\'s essays on her own films as well as more general essays on film theory, the relation of film to dance, various technical aspects of film production, the distinction between amateur and pr

Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film. It covers the developments of experimental filmmaking since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema, the French New Wave, structuralism and contemporary gallery work of the young British artists.

The book draws together writings by film-makers, theorists, critics and curators who over the past 70 years have been engaged with film not only as a form of art practice, but also as a subservice means of representing British society itself, and as a per

Devotional Cinema, reprised from filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky's lecture on religion and cinema at Princeton University, is a rare treasure of penetrating insight into the language of film. In a compelling style, somewhere between a Zen koan and a Victorian love story, Devotional Cinema makes the case for mindful viewing as a transcendent experience. In the process, Dorsky reflects upon the role of filmmaking in faith, prayer, pleasure, and the renewal of the human spirit. For Dorsky, the material nature of film illuminates a path to devotion. Devotional Cinema is a guide for makers and viewers who, like Dorsky, seek the 'elemental glory' of film." Kathleen Tyner (author of Literacy in A Digital World)