Downtown Film and TV Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkins, Joan.

Contributor:

Hawkins, Joan, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Motion pictures.

Reality television programs.

Local Subjects:

Culture.

Motion pictures.

Reality television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Other Title:

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by film-makers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and film-makers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger film-makers, community access to cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic Downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture. The book includes J. Hoberman's essay 'No Wavelength: The Parapunk Underground,' as well as historical essays by Tony Conrad and Lynne Tillman, interview

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Downtown Cinema Revisited; Acknowledgements; Downtown Body; Part I: Moments; Chapter 1: In the Movie-Viewing Machine: Essential Cinema and the 1970s; Chapter 2: No Wavelength: The Para-Punk Underground; Chapter 3: At Last Real Movies: Super 8 Cinema from New York; Chapter 4: Downtown's Room in Hotel History; Part II: Scenes; Chapter 5: The Blank Generation and Punk/Downtown History; Chapter 6: Birth of the Blank Generation; Chapter 7: Downtown Godard; Chapter 8: 'A Crack in the Veneer': A Conversation with Beth B

Chapter 9: Lydia Lunch, The Right Side of My BrainChapter 10: Pleasure and Danger: Bette Gordon's Variety; Chapter 11: Interview with Bette Gordon; Chapter 12: The Time of His Life: Spalding Gray; Chapter 13: Mixing Blag Flag, DIY, Lo-Fi, and Oulipo: Jon Moritsugu's Mommy Mommy Where's My Brain; Chapter 14: Cast Iron TV and Friends: Artists' Public Access in Manhattan; Chapter 15: TV Party: A Cocktail Party That Could Also be a Political Party; Chapter 16: The Case of Electra Elf: Towards New Possibilities of Underground Counterculture in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 17: Cock Worship: Todd Haynes, Fassbinder, and Queer PraxisChapter 18: Downtown's Queer Asides; Part III: Memorials; Chapter 19: Canonization and No Wave Cinema History; Chapter 20: The Downtown Scene in the Digital Era; Chapter 21: You Had to be There: The Downtown Archive and the Future of an Impossible Past; Chapter 22: The Centre Cannot Hold: Blank City (2010) and the Problems of Historicizing New York's Independent Cinema of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s; Chapter 23: Experimental Film; Filmography and Videography; Contributor Biographies; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78320-423-0