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- ↑ Robin Blaetz (2002) "Avant-garde Cinema of the Seventies," History of the American cinema, Volume 9, University of California Press, p473
- 1 2 3 4 Conner, J.D. (2009) "What Becomes of Things on Film on Film: Adaptation in Owen Land (George Landow)," Adaptation,2(2), 161–76
- ↑ Cook, Pam (1981) "The point of self-expression in avant-garde film," Theories of authorship: a reader, Routledge, p271-281
- 1 2 3 Dixon, Wheeler W. (1995) It looks at you: the returned gaze of cinema, SUNY Press, p1-2, 56-7