Other cinemas: politics, culture and experimental film in the 1970s
Other cinemas: politics, culture and experimental film in the 1970s
- London Bloomsbury Academic 2017
- x, 357 p.: ill. Includes index and bibliography
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey
Part 1: Critical contexts for 1970s experimental filmmaking
Chapter 1: Sophie Mayer: Feminism and psychoanalytic theory
Chapter 2: Nicolas Helm-Groves: Screen theory
Chapter 3: Politics and documentary practices
Chapter 4: Colin Perry: Brecht and theories of history
Part 2: Infrastructures, technologies and 1970s experimental filmmaking
Chapter 5: Ed Web Ingall: The technologies and practices of community video
Chapter 6: Julia Knight: From the LFMC to the Lux: DIY distribution networks
Chapter 7: Kim Knowles: The significance of 16mm film stock
Chapter 8: Lucy Reynolds: The origins and practice of women's distribution: from Circles to Cine-nova
Part 3: Practices, aesthetics and 1970s experimental filmmaking (The 200 avant-gardes)
Chapter 9: Catherine Elwes: Avant-garde video and experimental television
Chapter 10: Steven McIntyre: Structural materialism at the London Film-makers Co-op
Chapter 11: Patti Gaal-Holmes: Women's voices
Chapter 12: Daniela Rose King: The black workshops and collective practice
Part 4: Case Studies
Chapter 13: Amy Tobin: Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair (1978)
Chapter 14: Kodwo Eshun: The Song of the Shirt (1979)
Chapter 15: Frederico Windhausen: River Yar (1972)
Chapter 16: Rachel Garfield: Behindert (1974)
Chapter 17: Jamie Chambers: the Amber Film Collective
The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cinephiles, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences.
Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as William Raban and Stephen Dwoskin - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially aware film practice without which today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices would have struggled to gather such volume.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/other-cinemas-9781786722041/
9781350213128
Film - Cinema - Internationalism
Politics - Cultural policy - Arts funding
New accessible technologies - Avant-garde theories
791.43611 / O8
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey
Part 1: Critical contexts for 1970s experimental filmmaking
Chapter 1: Sophie Mayer: Feminism and psychoanalytic theory
Chapter 2: Nicolas Helm-Groves: Screen theory
Chapter 3: Politics and documentary practices
Chapter 4: Colin Perry: Brecht and theories of history
Part 2: Infrastructures, technologies and 1970s experimental filmmaking
Chapter 5: Ed Web Ingall: The technologies and practices of community video
Chapter 6: Julia Knight: From the LFMC to the Lux: DIY distribution networks
Chapter 7: Kim Knowles: The significance of 16mm film stock
Chapter 8: Lucy Reynolds: The origins and practice of women's distribution: from Circles to Cine-nova
Part 3: Practices, aesthetics and 1970s experimental filmmaking (The 200 avant-gardes)
Chapter 9: Catherine Elwes: Avant-garde video and experimental television
Chapter 10: Steven McIntyre: Structural materialism at the London Film-makers Co-op
Chapter 11: Patti Gaal-Holmes: Women's voices
Chapter 12: Daniela Rose King: The black workshops and collective practice
Part 4: Case Studies
Chapter 13: Amy Tobin: Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair (1978)
Chapter 14: Kodwo Eshun: The Song of the Shirt (1979)
Chapter 15: Frederico Windhausen: River Yar (1972)
Chapter 16: Rachel Garfield: Behindert (1974)
Chapter 17: Jamie Chambers: the Amber Film Collective
The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cinephiles, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences.
Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as William Raban and Stephen Dwoskin - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially aware film practice without which today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices would have struggled to gather such volume.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/other-cinemas-9781786722041/
9781350213128
Film - Cinema - Internationalism
Politics - Cultural policy - Arts funding
New accessible technologies - Avant-garde theories
791.43611 / O8