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Battcock, Gregory, ed. New Artists Video: a Critical Anthology . 1st ed. New York: Dutton, 1978.
Battock, Gregory. The New American Cinema: A Critical Anthology . New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967.
Boyle, Deirdre. Video Classics: a Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tapes . Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1986.
Brakhage, Stan. Brakhage Scrapbook: Collected Writings, 1964–1980 . New Paltz, NY: Documentext, 1982.
Brakhage, Stan. Metaphors on Vision . Edited by P. Adams Sitney. New York: Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, 2017.
Clair, René. Cinema Yesterday and Today . New York: Dover Publications, 1972.
Clark, VèVè A. The Legend of Maya Deren: a Documentary Biography and Collected Works . New York: Anthology Film Archives/Film Culture, 1984.
Cornwell, Regina. Snow Seen: The Films and Photographs of Michael Snow . Toronto: PMA Books, 1979.
Dixon, Wheeler W, and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader . London: Routledge, 2002.
Doyle, Jennifer, Jonathan Flatley, and José Esteban Muñoz, eds. Pop Out: Queer Warhol . Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Fifer, Sally Jo. Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art . New York: Aperture in association with the Bay Area Video Coalition, 1990.
Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy. To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema . Expanded ed., Morningside ed., with a new preface and epilogue. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Giles, Jane. The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un Chant d’Amour . London: BFI Pub, 1991.
Hanhardt, John G., ed. Video Culture: a Critical Investigation . Layton, Utah: G.M. Smith, Peregrine Smith Books, in association with Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986.
Hill, Chris, Kate Horsfield, Maria Troy, Deirdre Boyle, Art Institute of Chicago, and Video Data Bank. Rewind: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States, 1968–1980 . Chicago, Ill.: Video Data Bank, 1996.
Horak, Jan-Christopher. Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919–1945 . Wisconsin Studies in Film. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
James, David E. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties . Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1989.
James, David E., ed. To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas & the New York Underground . Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Kaplan, E. Ann. Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera . New York: Routledge, 1988.
Kovács, Steven. From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema . Rutherford, N.J.: London: Fairleigh Dickinson and Associated University Presses, 1980.
Kuenzli, Rudolf E., ed. Dada and Surrealist Film . 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996.
Landis, Bill. Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger . 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
Lawder, Standish D. The Cubist Cinema . Anthology Film Archives Series. New York: New York University Press, 1975.
Le Grice, Malcolm. Abstract Film and Beyond . 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1977.
MacDonald, Scott, ed. Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
MacDonald, Scott. Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies . Cambridge Film Classics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Martin, Katrina. “Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema .” Studio International 189, no. 973 (February 1975): 53–60.
Michelson, Annette. On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film . Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.
O’Pray, Michael. Andy Warhol: Film Factory . London: British Film Institute, 1989.
Peterson, James. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema . Contemporary Film and Television Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994.
Pierre, José. Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research, 1928–1932 . London; New York: Verso, 2011.
Rabinovitz, Lauren. Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943–71 . 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Rees, A. L. Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film . London: Tate Gallery Pub., 2011.
Renov, Michael. Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Rhodes, John David. Meshes of the Afternoon . London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2011.
Rowe, Carel. The Baudelairean Cinema: a Trend Within the American Avant-Garde . Studies in Cinema no. 8. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press, 1982.
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943–2000 . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Small, Edward S. Direct Theory: Experimental Film/Video as Major Genre . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Suárez, Juan. Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s American Underground Cinema . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Taléns, Jenaro. The Branded Eye: Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Turvey, Malcolm. The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s . October Books. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011.
Wees, William C. Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema . 1st ed. New York: Dutton, 1970.