Women's Experimental Cinema : Critical Frameworks / Robin Blaetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaetz, Robin, author.

Contributor:

Blaetz, Robin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 421 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Women's Experimental Cinema

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Women's Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical information, analyzing various influences on her work, examining the development of her corpus, and interpreting a significant number of individual films. The essays rescue the work of critically neglected but influential women filmmakers for teaching, further study, and, hopefully, restoration and preservation. Just as importantly, they enrich the understanding of feminism in cinema and expand the terrain of film history, particularly the history of the American avant-garde.

Contents:

Swing and sway: Marie Menken's filmic events / Melissa RagonaDifferent/same/both/neither: the polycentric cinema of Joyce Wieland / Paul ArthurExcavating visual fields, layering auditory frames: signature, translation, resonance, and Gunvor Nelson's films / Chris HolmlundMoving and moving: from minimalism to Lives of performers / Noël CarrollEye/body: the cinematic paintings of Carolee Schneemann / M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey"Absently enchanted": the apocryphal, ecstatic cinema of Barbara Rubin / Ara OsterweilAmy Greenfield: film, dynamic movement, and transformation / Robert A. HallerBarbara Hammer: lyrics and history / Chuck KleinhansChick Strand's experimental ethnography / Maria PramaggioreAmnesis time: the films of Marjorie Keller / Robin BlaetzIn the ruins of the image: the works of Leslie Thornton / Mary Ann DoaneSounds, intervals, and startling images in the films of Abigail Child / Maureen TurimPeggy's playhouse: contesting the modernist paradigm / William C. WeesSu Friedrich: breaking the rules / Janet CutlerThe experimental "dunyementary": a cinematic signature effect / Kathleen McHughWomen's experimental cinema: some pedagogical challenges / Scott MacDonald.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

1-4780-9144-4

OCLC:

1309038049