Bio
*1944, New Haven, Connecticut
After attending Yale University, P. Adams Sitney cofounded the Anthology Film Archives in 1970. As a historian of American avant-garde cinema, he currently teaches at Princeton University.
Articles about (and from) the Author and his Work
P. Adams Sitney, “Structural Film”, Film Culture, No 47, Summer 1969.
P. Adams Sitney (Ed.), Film Culture Reader, 1970.
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film, Oxford University Press, 1974.
P. Adams Sitney (Ed.), Essential Cinema, Essays on the Films in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives, 1975
P. Adams Sitney (Ed.), The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, 1987.
P. Adams Sitney, Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature, Columbia University Press, 1992.
P. Adams Sitney, Vital crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics, University of Texas Press, 1995.
P. Adams Sitney, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson, Oxford University Press, 2008.
P. Adams Sitney, The Cinema of Poetry, 2015.
Awards and residencies
Anna-Maria Kellen Prize from the American Academy Berlin, 2011