Power Misses II

David E. James taught in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California for thirty years, focusing on avant-garde cinema, culture in Los Angeles, East-Asian cinema, film and music, and working-class culture. His books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles; Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs; and Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music, and his collection of essays (with Adam Hyman) Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945–1980.

• 1. Im Kwon-taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism 2. Im Kwon-taek's Use of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema: Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon, and Hanji 3. The Name of a Desire: Recollections of Socialist Realism in East Asian Art Cinema 4. Tradition and the Movies: The Asian American Avant-Garde in Los Angeles 5. The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in Los Angeles 6. Towards a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics: Representations of Los Angeles in Non-Industrial Cinema – Killer of Sheep and Water and Power 7. Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird 8. L.A.'s Hipster Cinema 9. The Sky Socialist: Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption 10. The Mirror and the Vamp: Catoptrics of Self in Andy Warhol's Lupe 11. Letter to Paul Arthur (Letter With Endnotes) 12. Agricultural Revelation: Land, Labor, and Voice in Three Films About Laxton

London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde is only the latest of Curtis' remarkable contributions to the historiography of non-capitalist cinema, an achievement to which only that of P. Adams Sitney is comparable.(Millennium Film Journal)