Book

Tyler, Parker.

Underground film : a critical history / Parker Tyler ; with a new introduction by J. Hoberman ; a new afterword by Charles Boultenhouse ; and a new index.

1st Da Capo Press ed.

New York : Da Capo Press, 1995.

xxi, 265 pages, [31] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Author and American film critic Tyler was intimate with and enormously respected by many of the underground and experimental filmmakers of his time. In this book, Tyler evaluated the Underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre.

Experimental films -- History and criticism.

Includes filmography (pages 233-239) and index.

Introduction / J. Hoberman -- Preface to the 1972 edition -- The Underground versus the taboo on reality -- The exploding peephole of the Underground -- Toward exhibition and exhibitionism -- Popularizing peepshows : the infantile gimmick -- No establishment at all? -- Underground climb : from exhibitionism to art -- Underground infantilism : surfacing superstars -- Superstar space : the playroom -- Can the technician escape the Pad? -- The Pad can be commercialized -- Performing children, performing madmen -- The paranoiac : critical kick -- The Pad's predecessor : an archetype -- Underground film is primitive film -- Where the rub is -- The abstractness of avant-gardes -- The avant-garde laboratory -- Dotting the eyes of distortion -- Psychedelic anamorphosis and its lesson -- Dotting the eye of history -- Film aesthetics : rampant and purist -- The plot thickens : but seriously -- The plastic pulse ticks on -- In the Pad : plastique versus surplot -- Hard-core history -- The population explosion and the remedy -- Basic film forms -- History and manifesto -- The shape of things to come? -- Coda -- Filmography -- Afterword / Charles Boultenhouse.

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