Alan Leonard Rees (18 May 1949 – 28 November 2014) was a British writer and teacher about film, who advised the Arts Council, the

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, the

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and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He was the author of A History of Experimental Film and Video (2011), which remains an influential and standard textbook on the subject. Until his retirement, he was a tutor in visual communication at the

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formerly known as Maidstone College of Art and later the

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in London.

Bibliography

* '' A History of Experimental Film and Video'', BFI Publishing, 2011, 208 p.

References

1949 births 2014 deaths British writers {{UK-writer-stub