Exploding Eye

Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chairperson of the Film Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He has written and edited ten books, including The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; It Looks at You: The Returned Gaze of Cinema; and Re-Viewing British Cinema 1900-1992: Essays and Interviews, all published by SUNY Press.

"This book brings together an extraordinary spectrum of filmmakers and documents that represent the spirit of a vital period in the history of American independent filmmaking and cinema in general. By letting these auteurs, in effect, speak for themselves and by not discriminating among them, the author remains true to the communal energy that marked the period. I also admire the personal anecdotes and first-hand interviews interspersed throughout the text; these reflections define the author's commitment to, and participation in, the cultural milieu he surveys." — Lloyd Michaels, editor of Film Criticism"Dixon's book is a valuable introduction to a once-influential, but now-forgotten, movement in cinema history. He succeeds in his aim of remedying canonical defects by showing that many others operated in this era usually limited to Anger, Deren, and Warhol. The sheer diversity of works in the 1960s as well as other filmmakers now forgotten makes Dixon's project an important work of historical excavation." —Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale"This book records, often with unique personal experiences, an important period of American film history that is rarely surveyed, and it does so in a particularly unique way that reflects the broad concerns and variety of practitioners in the period. It is important to several fields of study, including literature and poetry as well as film and media." — Deac Rossell, former Head of Programme Planning, the National Film Theatre, London"…The Exploding Eye will be an invaluable resource for new studies of the independent cinema of the 1960s." — H-Net Reviews (H-PCAACA)"Dixon successfully and completely collates critical information on and by the filmmakers into a biographical glossary, a one stop, literate A to Z information center on the 'underground' cinema that flourished in the 1960s, and is now more often referred to as 'independent film.' … the author provides a guide with intellectual liner notes to both major and lesser-known figures in this movement." — CHOICE

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Adachi to Higgins 3. Hiler to Machover 4. Malanga to Snow 5. Sonbert to Zimmerman 6. Epilogue Bibliography Film Rental Sources About the Author Index