Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

by P. Adams Sitney

Tracing the history of modernism in cinema, this study provides readings of a range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. It argues that the act of vision and visual experience are problematized in literary modernism.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

P. Adams Sitney was a historian of American avant-garde cinema. He was known as the author of Visionary Film, one of the first books on the history of experimental film in the United States.