Indiscretions avant-garde film, video, and feminism / Patricia Mellencamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mellencamp, Patricia.

Series:

Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and motion pictures.

Experimental films.

Performing arts--Film & Video--Reference.

Performing arts.

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 234 p. )

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.

Contents:

Historically speaking

Visionary film and sexual difference

Video politics

Surveillance and simulation

Theoretical objects

Postmodern TV

Uncanny feminism

Last scene in the streets of modernism

Taking a cue from Ariadne

Images of language and indiscreet dialogues

The avant-garde, the everyday, and the underground.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-585-02373-5

OCLC:

1257380889

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access