Description: New essays exploring the surging field of experimental film in today's Germany and Austria.
Brief description: Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Review Quotes: Bringing together contributions from 15 scholars, many of them established historians of German and Austrian film, this collection. . . is among the first to address recent experimental film practices systematically, with attention to both a wide range of filmmakers, genres, and styles, and to the theoretical dimensions of film experiments 'after the avant-garde'. . . The best contributions to this volume move beyond historical documentation to theorize and rethink the notion of the avant-garde, or to place experimental film productions in a larger aesthetic and political context. . .After the Avant-Garde makes a significant contribution to expanding conceptions of contemporary German film.-- "GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW"