Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New Yorks alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigre and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with eith
Acknowledgments Introduction 2Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties 3The Old Days 4Jonas Mekas: A European Critic in America 5"Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris 6The Apron Strings of J