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Record Nr.

UNINA9910311934303321

Titolo

Women's experimental cinema : critical frameworks / / Robin Blaetz, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-9208-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlaetzRobin <1955->

Disciplina

791.4302.33082

791.430233082

Soggetti

Experimental films - United States - History and criticism

Women motion picture producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-400) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Swing and sway: Marie Menken's filmic events / Melissa Ragona -- Different/same/both/neither: the polycentric cinema of Joyce Wieland / Paul Arthur -- Excavating 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 works 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 -- Women's experimental cinema: some pedagogical challenges / Scott MacDonald.

Sommario/riassunto

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