The (Moving) Pictures Generation

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-60177-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dika, Vera

Dika, V.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Downtown New York in the Late 1970s and Beyond Part I: (Moving) Pictures(Moving) Pictures: IntroductionStillness/Movement: Joseph Cornell, Edison Company, Andy Warhol, Jack GoldsteinThe Female Body and the Film Frame: Andy Warhol, Cindy ShermanVivienne Dick's Film PortraitsPart II: CommunityAmos Poe and the New York New WaveDowntown and Community: Eric Mitchell, James Nares, Nan GoldinPart III: Narrative ExpectationsStrategies of Transformation: Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Cindy ShermanStrategies of Opposition: Eric Mitchell, Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie BordenPart IV: The Cinematic BodyPerformance and the Cinematic: Paul Swan, Eric BogosianThe Ephemeral Body/The Female Voice: Louise Lawler, Ericka BeckmanPart V: Downtown and the MainstreamIncursions into Popular Culture: Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Kathryn BigelowConclusion and Continuation

Über Autor(innen)

Vera Dika is Associate Professor of Film Studies at New Jersey City University, USA. She is the author of Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia (2003) and a founding editor of Millennium Film Journal.