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Article: The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles by David E. James. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 548 pp., illus. Hardcover: $65.00 and Paperback: $29.95.
With apologies to Chris Marker, David E. James may be cinema studies' last Bolshevik. Throughout his career, he has championed artisanal practices at the margins of official cinema, articulating their importance through a flexible but unapologetically orthodox Marxist framework. This has made him a controversial figure in cinema studies, particularly in relation to his work on avant-garde film. His now-classic book Allegories of Cinema explored American ...