Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties 17
6. The Old Days 49
7. "Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris 62
8. The Apron Strings of mm Jonas Mekas 83
9. How I Think I Made Some of My Films 97
10. The Forest and The Trees 100
11. Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas 121
12. During the Second Half of the Sixties 138
13. Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden 145
14. A Portfolio of Photographs 180
15. Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths 193
16. My Contacts with Jonas Mekas 213
17. Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist 215
18. Dear Friends 240
19. Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life 241
20. A Tale of Two Co-ops 255
21. Jonas Mekas 266
22. Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema 268
23. Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas? 284
24. Video at Anthology 286
25. I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas 293
26. Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World 294
27. Appendixes 313
28. Index 327