Blaetz Women's Experimental Cinema

Critical Frameworks
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9208-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

This volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blaetz, Robin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ragona, Melissa

Arthur, Paul

Holmlund, Christine

Carroll, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks / Robin Blaetz 1

Swing and Sway: Marie Menken’s Filmic Events / Melissa Ragona 20

Different/Same/Both/Neither: The Polycentric Cinema of Joyce Wieland / Paul Arthur 45

Evacuating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Resonance, and Gunvor Nelson’s Films / Chris Holmlund 67

Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers / Noel Carroll 89

Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann / M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey 103

“Absently Enchanted”: The Apocryphal, Ecstatic Cinema of Barbara Rubin / Ara Osterweil 127

Amy Greenfield: Film, Dynamic Movement, and Transformation / Robert A. Haller 152

Barbara Hammer: Lyrics and History / Chuck Kleinhans 167

Chick Strand’s Experimental Ethnography / Maria Pramaggiore 188

Amnesis Time: The Films of Marjorie Keller / Robin Blaetz 211

In the Ruins of the Image: The Work of Leslie Thornton / Mary Ann Doane 239

Sounds, Intervals, and Startling Images in the Films of Abigail Child / Maureen Turim 263

Peggy’s Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm / William C. Wees 290

Su Friedrich: Breaking the Rules / Janet Cutler 312

The Experimental “Dunyementary”: A Cinematic Signature Effect / Kathleen McHugh 339

Women’s Experimental Cinema: Some Pedgogical Challenges / Scott Macdonald 360

Appendix: Film Distribution 383

Bibliography 385

Contributors 401

Index 405

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Blaetz is Associate Professor and Chair of the Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture.