P. Adams Sitney

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P. Adams Sitney is an American film historian and critic best known for his pioneering scholarship on avant-garde cinema and his central role in shaping the study and preservation of experimental film.

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instanceOf academic
film critic
film historian
person
coFounderOf Anthology Film Archives
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1944
educatedAt Yale University
employer Princeton University
fieldOfWork avant-garde cinema
experimental film
film criticism
film history
genre film studies
literary criticism
hasRole archivist of experimental film
curator of avant-garde film programs
hasTaught avant-garde cinema
film history
film theory
hasWrittenFor Artforum
Film Culture
October
influenced academic study of experimental cinema
canon formation of American avant-garde film
influencedBy Hollis Frampton
Maya Deren
Michael Snow
Stan Brakhage
knownFor historical periodization of American avant-garde film
theorization of structural film
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Anthology Film Archives selection committee
nationality American
notableFor pioneering scholarship on avant-garde cinema
shaping the study of experimental film
work on preservation of experimental film
notableWork Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson
Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature
Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943–1978
Vital Crises in Italian Cinema
occupation author
professor
placeOfBirth New Haven, Connecticut
residence Princeton, New Jersey
workFocusesOn American avant-garde film
structural film

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Anthology Film Archives foundedBy P. Adams Sitney
Film Culture hasContributor P. Adams Sitney
subject linked to: Film Culture magazine