Film Culture

Film Culture was an American film magazine started by Adolfas Mekas and his brother Jonas Mekas in 1954.

[1] Best known for exploring the avant-garde cinema in depth (especially in the third issue when Mekas originally criticized the 'adolescent' character of American experimental film culture with homophobic overtones and arguing the empty gap between the self-absorbing experimental filmmaking and Hollywood's populism),[2] it also published articles on other aspects of cinema, including Hollywood films.

Articles from Film Culture are compiled in a book entitled Film Culture Reader, published by Cooper Square Press.

Film Culture ceased publication 1996.

[1] The magazine presented awards to independent film makers: