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Experimental filmmaking and punk : feminist audio visual culture in the 1970s and 1980s / Rachel Garfield London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Call No: 771-02 GARAuthor: Garfield, Rachel Edition: 2021Place: LondonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2022PhysDes: xiv, 274 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: CHILD, ABIGAIL ; DICK, VIVIENNE ; BENNING, SADIE ; THORNTON, LESLIE ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS ; NIGHTCLEANERS (UK, Berwick Street Film Collective, 1975) ; BORN IN FLAMES (US, Lizzie Borden, 1983) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Summary: Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making.
In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new “punk audio visual aesthetic”. A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s and 2000s. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781350293083Contents: Introduction -- 1. Do it Yourself and the Amateur -- 2. The Last of the Modern Two - Visualizing Women, Otherness and the Cosmopolitan Punk -- 3. Feminism, Visualising the Kitchen Table and Do-It-Yourself: in Praise of the Fragment Part 1 -- 4. Kracauer Disintegration and Punk: In Praise of the Fragment Part 2 -- 5. Representation and the Inability to Situate: the Undecidability of Women's Punk -- Conclusion – Bibliography -- Index.
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The field of language in film in October (Summer 1981) iss.17 p.53-60
Author: Wollen, Peter PhysDes: ArticleSubject: SYMBOLIC ORDER ; PATRIARCHAL DISCOURSE ; SEMIOTICS ; LANGUAGE AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980) ; PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Summary: A lengthy essay/article by Peter Wollen on semiotics and its relationship to a dominant patriarchal symbolic order within film. He explores the problematic of filmmakers attempting to counter patriarchal discourse. Wollen notes that one cinematic path is to avoid verbal language altogether and instead focus on icons, indices, images, and traces. However, Wollen rejects this option as ineffective as he places both verbal and visual language as crucial to the composition of films, in terms of both signifier and signified. Wollen also comments that in his counter-language projects with Laura Mulvey ("Amy!", "Penthesilea", and "Riddles of the Sphinx"), films where women's voices predominate in various modes, a fractured body of language has resulted
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Interview with Laura Mulvey in Uncut (Winter 1982/83) iss.6 p.11-16
Author: Danino, Nina ; Moy-Thomas, Lucy PhysDes: ArticleSubject: MULVEY, LAURA ; AMY! (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1980) ; PENTHESILEA (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1974) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) ; CRYSTAL GAZING (UK, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1982) ; BAD SISTER, THE (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1983) ; FRIDA KAHLO AND TINA MODOTTI (AT, Laura Mulvey / Peter Wollen, 1982) Summary: Interview with Laura Mulvey discussing the creative progression of her works with Peter Wollen.Notes: Ill.
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Screen writings : scripts and texts by independent filmmakers / [edited by] Scott MacDonald Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Call No: 792 SCRAuthor: MacDonald, Scott, 1942 Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: ix, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: SCRIPTS ; INDEPENDENT FILMS ; MULVEY, LAURA ; WOLLEN, PETER ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; TRINH, T. MINH-HA ; FRIEDRICH, SU ; ONO, YOKO ; GREAVES, WILLIAM ; BENNING, JAMES ; ROSE, PETER ; FISHER, MORGAN ; FLEMING, ANN MARIE ; RAINER, YVONNE ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; REASSEMBLAGE (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1983) ; NAKED SPACES (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985) ; PRIVILEGE (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1990) ; NEW SHOES : AN INTERVIEW IN EXACTLY 5 MINUTES (CN?, Ann Marie Fleming, 1990) ; YOU TAKE CARE NOW (CN?, Ann Marie Fleming, 1989) ; SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM : TAKE ONE (US, William Greaves, 1991 [prod.1967]) ; ZORNS LEMMA (US, Hollis Frampton, 1970) ; POETIC JUSTICE (US, Hollis Frampton, 1972) ; GLORIA! (US, Hollis Frampton, 1979) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) ; GRAND OPERA (US, James Benning, 1979) ; HIM AND ME (GW, James Benning, 1982) ; SO IS THIS (CN, Michael Snow, 1982) ; PLEASURES OF THE TEXT (US, Peter Rose, 1985) ; SECONDARY CURRENTS (US, Peter Rose, 1983) ; STANDARD GAUGE (US, Morgan Fisher, 1985?) ; GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (US, Su Friedrich, 1983) ; SINK OR SWIM (US, Su Friedrich, 1981) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-339)ISBN: 0520080246 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520080254 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 9335490
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Shot/countershot : film tradition and women's cinema / Lucy Fischer Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1989.
Call No: 451-02 FISAuthor: Fischer, Lucy Place: BasingstokePublisher: Macmillan EducationPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY ; ROMANTIC FILMS ; MUSICALS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; MYTH AND THE CINEMA ; DOUBLES IN FILMS ; TWINS IN FILMS ; ROSE, KATHY ; GORRIS, MARLEEN ; FLICKORNA (SW, Mai Zetterling, 1968) ; TAKE OFF (US, Gunvor Nelson, 1973) ; MITTEN INS HERZ (GW, Doris Dorrie, 1983) ; RECITAL (?, Stephanie Beroes, 1978) ; DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (US, Dorothy Arzner, 1940) ; COBRA WOMAN (US, Robert Siodmak, 1943) ; ANNEES 80, LES (FR/BE/SZ, Chantal Akerman, 1983) ; STOLEN LIFE, A (UK, Paul Czinner, 1939) ; DARK MIRROR, THE (US, Robert Siodmak, 1946) ; BAD SISTER, THE (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1983) ; LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) ; DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934) ; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982) ; PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; SCHWESTERN, ODER DIE BALANCE DES GLUCKS (GW, Margarethe von Trotta, 1979) ; RICH AND FAMOUS (US, George Cukor, 1981) ; GIRLFRIENDS (US, Claudia Weill, 1978) ; SOTTO...SOTTO...STRAPAZZATO DA ANOMALA PASSIONE (IT, Lina Wertmuller, 1984) ; LIANNA (US, John Sayles, 1983) ; VIOLETTE NOZIERE (FR/CN, Claude Chabrol, 1978) ; MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN, THE (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1985) Notes: Cinema films. Women directors (BNB/PRECIS); Cinema films. - Feminist viewpoints (BNB/PRECIS); Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0333480600 (cased) : ¦30.00; 0333480619 (pbk.) : ¦8.95LON: bnb33348060; 6147621
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Visual and other pleasures / Laura Mulvey Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Call No: 67(04) MULAuthor: Mulvey, Laura Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1989PhysDes: xvi, 201 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Theories of representation and differenceSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; THEORY ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; PERCEPTION ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; SIRK, DOUGLAS ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; DUEL IN THE SUN (US, King Vidor, 1946) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) Notes: Includes bibliographiesISBN: 0253362261; 0253204941 (pbk.)LON: 88009627; 5820595Contents: I. ICONOCLASM -- 1. The spectacle is vulnerable: Miss World 1970 -- 2. Fears, fantasies and the male unconsious or 'You don't know what is happening, do you Mr. Jones?' -- 3. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema -- II. MELODRAMA -- 4. Afterthoughts on 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' inspired by King Vidor's Duel in the sun (1946) -- 5. Notes on Sirk and melodrama -- 6. Fassbinder and Sirk -- 7. Images of women, images of sexuality: some films by J. L. Godard -- 8. Melodrama inside and outside the house -- III. ON THE MARGINS -- 9. Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti -- IV. Avant-Garde -- 10. Film, feminism and the avant-garde -- 11. Dialogue with spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin -- 12. 'Magnificent obsession': an introduction to the work of five photographers -- 13. Impending time: Mary Kelly's Corpus -- V. BOUNDARIES -- 14. Changes: thoughts on myth, narrative and historical experience -- 15. The Oedipus myth: beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx
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