Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema is the indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold story that includes the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic “art versus commerce” discourses, Subversion not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London, but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.
Really enjoying this at the moment. Highly recommended.
Took me awhile to get started, but once I was over the foreword really really enjoyed it. Amazingly informative & hugely inspiring. Excellent take on the early art vs nonArt and how this relates to cinema. The stuff on Britain avant garde LFMC was great (brought back my experience of visiting their space in Camden and not feeling welcomed and that experimental film making had any connection to me).
www.duncanreekie.co.uk/subversion.htm
