Experimental filmmaking and punk : feminist audio visual culture in the 1970s and '80s / by Rachel Garfield.
| Author/creator |
Garfield, Rachel author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. |
| Description | xiv, 274 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction -- The last of the modern one: Do-it-yourself and the amateur -- The last of the modern two: Visualizing women, otherness and the cosmopolitan punk -- In praise of the fragment part one: Feminism, visualizing the kitchen table and do-it-yourself -- In praise of the fragment part two: Kracauer, disintegration and punk -- Representation and the inability to situate: The undecidability of women's punk -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Just as Punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist Punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new "Punk audio visual aesthetic". A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s and 2000s"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Garfield, Rachel. Experimental filmmaking and punk London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350197657 |
| LCCN | 2021017620 |
| ISBN | 9781788313995 hardback |
| ISBN | 1788313992 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781350244443 paperback |
| ISBN | 1350244449 paperback |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | 9781350293083 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1350293083 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1995.9 .W6 G37 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |