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Indiscretions Patricia Mellencamp

Indiscretions By Patricia Mellencamp

Indiscretions by Patricia Mellencamp

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Follows the path of US avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. This book creates a dialogue among theory, popular culture, and politics through inventive renderings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter.

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Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism by Patricia Mellencamp

Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.

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... delightfully personal even though it is solidly academic and documented... a welcome and rare bridging of the theoretical and the practical explication of particular texts. Choice ... influenced by Foucault, by Deleuze and Guattari ... in a style that is passionate and inventive. The essays reflect the author's enthusiasm for a kind of filmmaking and criticism which sidesteps the cautious scholarly mode. Mellencamp is a theorist ... who enjoys taking liberties with theory ... one moment an academic spokeswoman on behalf of the avant garde; the next a feminist critic; then a raconteur bringing us tales from the underground; then a cultural archivist putting down in print otherwise undocumented past moments; and finally, a postmodern writer pursuing a 'rhizomatic' path ... Mellencamp is remembering a history which made an enormous contribution to present-day film culture. Angela McRobbie, Screen Mellencamp takes a fresh look at the American avant-garde cinema ... a lively intellectual romp, moving rapidly from one concept to another ... Cantrills Filmnotes ... Mellencamp writes well, with flair and style, with a kind of feisty eclecticism. East-West Film Journal ... an invigorating read; its devotion to the avant-garde is infectious; and its optimism fires hope for a bold and transgressive future for feminist cultural politics ... Journal of Gender Studies

Table of Contents

Prologue: Speaking Personally; 1. Historically Speaking; 2. Visionary Film and Sexual Difference; 3. Video Politics; 4. Surveillance and Simulation; 5. Theoretical Objects; 6. Postmodern TV; 7. Uncanny Feminism; 8. Last Scene in the Streets of Modernism; 9. Taking Cue from Ariadne; 10. Images of Language and Indiscreet Dialogues; 11. The Avant-Garde, the Everyday, and the Underground

Additional information

NLS9780253205872
9780253205872
0253205875
Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism by Patricia Mellencamp
Patricia Mellencamp
New
Paperback
Indiana University Press
1990-09-22
243
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