Wide Angle Books

No longer active. The mission of Wide Angle Books is to document, chronicle, and honor those institutions that have worked effectively to maintain a public presence and public spaces for alternative forms of media. These books recognize that institutional support of media happens at a variety of levels in a film series, in a video distribution organization, in a transnational digital network, in a grassroots production organization and in locations across the globe. Individual volumes in the series focus on such forms of primary documentation as letters, institutional records, and oral histories, presented and contextualized by leading media history scholars. 

Art in Cinema

Documents Toward a History of the Film Society

Scott MacDonald

Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history

320 pages | 7 x 10 | 12 figures, 27 halftones

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Cinema 16

Documents Toward a History of the Film Society

Scott MacDonald

The history of Cinema 16—the nation's first film society—through letters, programs, interviews, and the society's own documents

488 pages | 7 x 10 | 32 figures 60 halftones

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Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989

Edited by Catherine Portuges, and Peter John Bursell Hames

An examination of Eastern European cinema a generation after the end of the Cold War

288 pages | 6 x 9

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Feedback

The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews

Edited by Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand

Historic documentation of the development of art-based, activist, and alternative media in the U.S.

360 pages | 8.5 x 11 | 325 halftones

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The Sons and Daughters of Los

Culture and Community in L.A.

Edited by David E. James

Breathing a new city of Los Angeles to life, through urban art and performance

264 pages | 7 x 10 | 50 halftones

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Stan Brakhage

Filmmaker

Edited by David E. James

The art and legacy of a towering figure in the independent film movement

248 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 halftones

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