{"product_id":"womens-experimental-cinema-9780822340232","title":"Womens Experimental Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWomen’s Experimental Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource for students and devotees of experimental cinema and feminist film, fields defined by remarkable films and a dearth of critical attention. It brings to light the social and political roots and cultural impact of women’s experimental film, and the specific female, feminine, and feminist practices of an exceptional group of women artists.”—\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Juhasz\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eWomen of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This definitive volume on U.S. women’s experimental cinema fills a significant and long-lamented gap within film studies, and in feminist film studies in particular. Together, these essays offer us a richly nuanced picture not only of women’s experimental film but of avant-garde filmmaking in general from the 1940s to the present.”—\u003cb\u003eSharon Willis\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A truly remarkable collection on feminist independent cinema, this is one of the most comprehensive and well thought out books on the subject to appear to date. . . . [T]he book moves from strength to strength to create a collection that is as cohesive as it is authoritative. . . . Well illustrated with behind-the-scenes production shots and frame blow ups from the films themselves, and written by some of the most gifted critics working in the field today, this collection is both deeply felt and rigorously detailed. Essential. All readers, all levels.” -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks \/ Robin Blaetz 1\u003cbr\u003e Swing and Sway: Marie Menken’s Filmic Events \/ Melissa Ragona 20\u003cbr\u003e Different\/Same\/Both\/Neither: The Polycentric Cinema of Joyce Wieland \/ Paul Arthur 45\u003cbr\u003e Evacuating Visual Fields, Layering Auditory Frames: Signature, Translation, Resonance, and Gunvor Nelson’s Films \/ Chris Holmlund 67\u003cbr\u003e Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers \/ Noel Carroll 89\u003cbr\u003e Eye\/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann \/ M.M. Serra and Kathryn Ramey 103\u003cbr\u003e “Absently Enchanted”: The Apocryphal, Ecstatic Cinema of Barbara Rubin \/ Ara Osterweil 127\u003cbr\u003e Amy Greenfield: Film, Dynamic Movement, and Transformation \/ Robert A. Haller 152\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Hammer: Lyrics and History \/ Chuck Kleinhans 167\u003cbr\u003e Chick Strand’s Experimental Ethnography \/ Maria Pramaggiore 188\u003cbr\u003e Amnesis Time: The Films of Marjorie Keller \/ Robin Blaetz 211\u003cbr\u003e In the Ruins of the Image: The Work of Leslie Thornton \/ Mary Ann Doane 239\u003cbr\u003e Sounds, Intervals, and Startling Images in the Films of Abigail Child \/ Maureen Turim 263\u003cbr\u003e Peggy’s Playhouse: Contesting the Modernist Paradigm \/ William C. Wees 290\u003cbr\u003e Su Friedrich: Breaking the Rules \/ Janet Cutler 312\u003cbr\u003e The Experimental “Dunyementary”: A Cinematic Signature Effect \/ Kathleen McHugh 339\u003cbr\u003e Women’s Experimental Cinema: Some Pedgogical Challenges \/ Scott Macdonald 360\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Film Distribution 383\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 385\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 401\u003cbr\u003e Index 405","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406046765399,"sku":"9780822340232","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822340232.jpg?v=1730494354","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/womens-experimental-cinema-9780822340232","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}