Description
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the evolution of the author's political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of mainstream culture and cinema.
Trade Review"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scene are as key to how Rainer's films work as is language." The Independent "The scripts record the unique structure of [Rainer's] films, the stresses, strains, and crackling of voices layering over and into one another. Their publication is an important moment for feminist film." Cineaste "Rainer's films are not highly accessible but are important to the critical imagination as an example of the sustained exploration of political and feminist theory." Choice "Rainer's important work in the area of avant-garde filmmaking in the seventies and eighties is amply recorded in this book ..." Cantrills Filmnotes'
Table of ContentsForeword
by Teresa de Lauretis
Yvonne Rainer: An Introduction
by B. Ruby Rich
Impossible Projections
by Berenice Reynaud
Interview with Yvonne Rainer
by Mitchell Rosenbaum
Illustrations
Film Scripts
Lives of Performers
Film About a Woman Who...
Kristina Talking Pictures
Journeys from Berlin/1971
The Man Who Envied Women
Filmography
Bibliography
compliled by Patricia White
