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Author(s): Robin Blaetz

ISBN(s): 9780822392088, 0822392089

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Year: 2024

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 0822392089
ISBN 13: 978-0822392088
Author: Robin Blaetz

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.

The contributors examine the work of Marie Menken, Joyce Wieland, Gunvor Nelson, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Rubin, Amy Greenfield, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand, Marjorie Keller, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child, Peggy Ahwesh, Su Friedrich, and Cheryl Dunye. The essays highlight the diversity in these filmmakers’ forms and methods, covering topics such as how Menken used film as a way to rethink the transition from abstract expressionism to Pop Art in the 1950s and 1960s, how Rubin both objectified the body and investigated the filmic apparatus that enabled that objectification in her film Christmas on Earth (1963), and how Dunye uses film to explore her own identity as a black lesbian artist. At the same time, the essays reveal commonalities, including a tendency toward documentary rather than fiction and a commitment to nonhierarchical, collaborative production practices. The volume’s final essay focuses explicitly on teaching women’s experimental films, addressing logistical concerns (how to acquire the films and secure proper viewing spaces) and extending the range of the book by suggesting alternative films for classroom use.

Contributors. Paul Arthur, Robin Blaetz, Noël Carroll, Janet Cutler, Mary Ann Doane, Robert A. Haller, Chris Holmlund, Chuck Kleinhans, Scott MacDonald, Kathleen McHugh, Ara Osterweil, Maria Pramaggiore, Melissa Ragona, Kathryn Ramey, M. M. Serra, Maureen Turim, William C. Wees

Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks 1st Table of contents:

Introduction:

Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks
Robin Blaetz

Essays on Individual Filmmakers:

Swing and Sway: Marie Menken’s Filmic Events
Melissa Ragona
Different/Same/Both/Neither: The Polycentric Cinema of Joyce Wieland
Paul Arthur
Evacuating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Resonance, and Gunvor Nelson’s Films
Chris Holmlund
Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers
Noel Carroll
Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann
M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey
“Absently Enchanted”: The Apocryphal, Ecstatic Cinema of Barbara Rubin
Ara Osterweil
Amy Greenfield: Film, Dynamic Movement, and Transformation
Robert A. Haller
Barbara Hammer: Lyrics and History
Chuck Kleinhans
Chick Strand’s Experimental Ethnography
Maria Pramaggiore
Amnesis Time: The Films of Marjorie Keller
Robin Blaetz
In the Ruins of the Image: The Work of Leslie Thornton
Mary Ann Doane
Sounds, Intervals, and Startling Images in the Films of Abigail Child
Maureen Turim
Peggy’s Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm
William C. Wees
Su Friedrich: Breaking the Rules
Janet Cutler
The Experimental “Dunyementary”: A Cinematic Signature Effect
Kathleen McHugh

Concluding Essays:

Women’s Experimental Cinema: Some Pedagogical Challenges
Scott Macdonald

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