The Avant-Garde Feature Film

<p> Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challenging films all of feature length. The author focuses on the particular forms of contemporary avant-garde films which often rely on characteristics associated with historical films of the same genre. Included are works by such visionary filmmakers as David Lynch Luis Bunuel Jean Cocteau Jean-Luc Godard Guy Maddin and Derek Jarman.</p><p> The first of the two appendices contains a filmography of key avant-garde feature films from <I>Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages</I> (1922) to <I>Maximum Shame</I> (2010). The second appendix offers a brief list of directors who have made significant contributions to films that take alternative approaches to cinematic practice establishing new grounds for analysis and evaluation.</p>