Dreams of Chaos

by James Peterson

Book Overview

In spite of the difficulty of most American avant-garde films, one can read volumes and find almost no mention of how to view these films. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order addresses precisely this question: how--and to what extent--can viewers make sense of American avant-garde films? It is a controversial book that examines the implicit assumptions of traditional scholarship, advocates on alternative to dominant approaches to the avant-garde...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814324576
• ISBN13: 9780814324578
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 10.0"