Other cinemas : politics, culture and experimental film in the 1970s / edited by Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clayton, Sue, editor.

Mulvey, Laura, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Summary:

Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer and director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cine-philes, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences.Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as Stephen Dwoskin, Derek Jarman, and Sally Potter - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially aware film practice without which today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices would have struggled to gather such volume.

Contents:

Semiotics and 1970s British film culture / Nicolas Helm-Grovas

Listening to women / Sophie Mayer

Political contexts of 1970s independent filmmaking / Steve Sprung and Anthony Davies

Platforms of history: Brecht and the public uses of radical history in 1970s independent cinema / Colin Perry

Audiences: not an optional extra: artists' distribution practices from the London film-makers' co-op to Lux / Julia Knight

Engaging material specificities: aesthetics and politics in the 1970s / Kim Knowles

The technologies and practices of 1970s community video in the UK / Ed Webb-Ingall

'Whose history?' Feminist advocacy and experimental film and video / Lucy Reynolds

A whole new attitude: the London film-makers' co-op in the decade of structural/materialism / Steven McIntyre

The 'salvage' of working-class history and experience: reconsidering the Amber Collective's 1970s Tyneside documentaries / Jamie Chambers

Television interventions: experiments in broadcasting by artists in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s / Catherine Elwes

Britain's black filmmaking workshops and collective practice / Daniella Rose King

Views of River Yar: reconsidering Raban and Welsby's landmark landscape film / Federico Windhausen

Between seeing and knowing: Stephen Dwoskin's Behindert and the camera's caress / Rachel Garfield

Rapunzel, let down your hair / Amy Tobin

'On her devolves the labour': the cinematic time travel of The Song of the Shirt / Kodwo Eshun

Memories of the other cinema / Nick Hart-Williams

Organising for innovation in film and television: the independent film-makers' association in the long 1970s / Simon Blanchard and Claire M. Holdsworth

The International Forum on Avant-Garde Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 1976: interview with Lynda Myles / Kim Knowles

The workshop declaration: independents and organised labour / Claire M. Holdsworth

Campaigning for innovation and experiment on Channel 4 / Claire M. Holdsworth and Rod Stoneman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index.

ISBN:

9781784537180

1784537187

OCLC:

993778614