The Essential Cinema: Essays on the films in the collection of Anthology Film Archives

by P. Adams Sitney

Anthology Film Archives is unique among the cinematheques of the world in that it selects, preserves, and exhibits a body of essential films which attempts to define the art of film-making. The Essential Cinema combines some of the polemical, critical, and scholarly activities of Anthology Film Archives in book form.

Genres: Film

364 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

P. Adams Sitney was a historian of American avant-garde cinema. He was known as the author of Visionary Film, one of the first books on the history of experimental film in the United States.