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- ↑ Knight, Julia; Thomas, Peter (2011). Reaching Audiences: Distribution and Promotion of Alternative Moving Image. Intellect Books. pp. Chapters 1&6. ISBN 9781841501574.
- ↑ Christoph Grunenberg and Jonathan Harris, Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s, Liverpool University Press, 2005, p102. ISBN 0-85323-919-3
- ↑ The Dairy
- ↑ David E. James and Rick Berg, The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class, University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp198-199. ISBN 0-8166-2704-5
- ↑ A. L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video, 1999, BFI.
- ↑ LFMC Cinema Events Programme: April/May 1987
- ↑ "Carolee Schneemann Interview - Blog - LUX". www.lux.org.uk. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ↑ Peter Gidal, Materialist Film (Routledge),John Smith, Bart J. Moore-Gilbert, The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure?, Routledge, 1994, p231. ISBN 0-415-09906-4
- ↑ Marsha MacCreadie, Women Screenwriters Today: Their Lives And Words, Praeger/Greenwood, 2006, p63. ISBN 0-275-98542-3
- ↑ A Century of Artists' Film in Britain: Programme 4: Structural Film, link updated 4 August 2014.
