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"The structural film insists on its shape, and what content it has is minimal and subsidiary to the outline. This is the clearest in The Flicker (1965) of Tony Conrad and Ray Gun Virus (1966) of Paul Sharits where the flickering of ..."--"Structural Film" (1969) by P. Adams Sitney, originally published in Film Culture 47, Summer, 1969; revised, Winter, 1969

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P. Adams Sitney (born August 9, 1944 in New Haven, Connecticut), is an historian of avant-garde film in the United States. He coined the term structural film.

Life

He was educated in his hometown, at Yale University. He was a founder of Anthology Film Archives and, along with Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Ken Kelman, and James Broughton, served as one of the members of the Anthology Film Archives Essential Cinema film selection committee. He is currently Professor of the Council of the Humanities and Visual Arts at Princeton University.

Works

In 1974, he wrote Visionary Film, the first major history of post-World War II American avant-garde filmmaking; revised editions of the book were published in 1979 and 2002. He is also the author of Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature (1992) and Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics (1995) and the editor of The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Films in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives (1975), Film Culture Reader (1970), and The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism (1987).

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