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Columns

Higher Learning: A Greater Los Angeles

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
January 14, 2019
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

Independents: The Atom and Eve of Destruction

By Amos Vogel
January 1, 1983
Amos Vogel on images of the atom bomb

Independents: Missionary Positions

By Amos Vogel
May 1, 1982
Marital love and the seventh art, in the May/June 1982 edition of Amos Vogel's Independents column

Independents: Stalking Asparagus

By Amos Vogel
May 1, 1981

Independents: A Turning Point in Social Cinema

By Amos Vogel
November 1, 1979
Amos Vogel reports from the first U.S. Conference for an Alternative Cinema

Independents: A Reader’s Digest of the Avant-Garde

By Amos Vogel
July 1, 1976
Amos Vogel offers a history of the American avant-garde to counter its formal exhibition

Independents: The Avant-Garde of the Seventies

By Amos Vogel
May 1, 1975
The variety of formal and thematic trends within the current avant-garde

Independents: Structures

By Amos Vogel
January 1, 1975
On recent organizations formed by independent filmmakers

Independents: Documentary Films

By Amos Vogel
September 1, 1974
Amos Vogel on a turn toward immediacy and verisimilitude