Marvelous Names in Literature and Cinema

MARVELOUS NAMES

IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA

By P. Adams Sitney

A new collection of essays from P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, an important and influential early study of American experimental cinema.

P. Adams Sitney explores topics such as Herman Melville and the novel Moby-Dick, Charlie Chaplin, the early cinema of Géorges Méliès, Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967), the avant-garde cinema of Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol and Harry Smith, modern poetry (Sté...