Author: Juan Antonio Suárez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197567012
Category : Experimental film
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book shows that experimental cinema revealed a peculiar latency of the modern everyday that can be called queer materiality. Queer materiality designates a sense of queer possibility in modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors; it also refers to the way in which sexual and social dissidence was embedded in the objects, technologies, substances, and spaces that make up the hardware of experience. Experimental film offers a rich archive of queer material engagements. This book studies various queer material configurations in the work of well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, or Jack Smith, but it also explores under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl or Teo Hernández. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, the book shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, mood-enhancers such as amphetamine, film grain, or noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. The book's inquiry into the liveliness of matter and into the interface between sexuality and the material world directly resonates with a growing ecological consciousness and with current concerns about the definition and reach of the human in a universe of intricate post-human entanglements"--
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality
Author: Juan Antonio Suárez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197567012
Category : Experimental film
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book shows that experimental cinema revealed a peculiar latency of the modern everyday that can be called queer materiality. Queer materiality designates a sense of queer possibility in modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors; it also refers to the way in which sexual and social dissidence was embedded in the objects, technologies, substances, and spaces that make up the hardware of experience. Experimental film offers a rich archive of queer material engagements. This book studies various queer material configurations in the work of well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, or Jack Smith, but it also explores under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl or Teo Hernández. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, the book shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, mood-enhancers such as amphetamine, film grain, or noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. The book's inquiry into the liveliness of matter and into the interface between sexuality and the material world directly resonates with a growing ecological consciousness and with current concerns about the definition and reach of the human in a universe of intricate post-human entanglements"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197567012
Category : Experimental film
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book shows that experimental cinema revealed a peculiar latency of the modern everyday that can be called queer materiality. Queer materiality designates a sense of queer possibility in modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors; it also refers to the way in which sexual and social dissidence was embedded in the objects, technologies, substances, and spaces that make up the hardware of experience. Experimental film offers a rich archive of queer material engagements. This book studies various queer material configurations in the work of well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, or Jack Smith, but it also explores under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl or Teo Hernández. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, the book shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, mood-enhancers such as amphetamine, film grain, or noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. The book's inquiry into the liveliness of matter and into the interface between sexuality and the material world directly resonates with a growing ecological consciousness and with current concerns about the definition and reach of the human in a universe of intricate post-human entanglements"--
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality
Author: Juan Antonio Suárez
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197566995
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality studies a rich archive of queer material engagements in work by well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, and Jack Smith as well as under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Teo Hernández.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197566995
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality studies a rich archive of queer material engagements in work by well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, and Jack Smith as well as under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Teo Hernández.
A Companion to Experimental Cinema
Author: Federico Windhausen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119107903
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An exploration of what experimental cinema was, is, and might become A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a collection of original essays organized around both theoretical and historical issues of concern to film scholars, programmers, filmmakers, and viewers. Newly-commissioned essays written by specialists in the field, along with dialogues conducted with a diverse range of practitioners, focus on core subjects to present an international array of overlapping and contrasting perspectives. This unique text not only provides detailed accounts of particular films and filmmakers, but also discusses new approaches of understanding, characterizing, and shaping experimental cinema. The Companion offers readers an accessible point of entry to the material while seeking to contribute to scholarly debates. Essays explore a wide range of topics within the realm of experimental film, including the shift from traditional biography to broader contexts, the increased attention afforded to local and transnational circuits of exchange, and the deepening of theoretical considerations regarding cultural identity and cinematic aesthetics. Key themes and concepts are inter-woven throughout the text, offering fresh perspectives on experimental cinema’s dialogues with other modes and practices of film and video, its interactions with the non-cinematic arts, its responses to changing technological landscapes, and more. An essential addition to the field, the Companion: Balances introductory summaries and scholarly dialogue with existing literature Explores how the study of experimental cinema can benefit from scholarship in other disciplines Includes numerous analyses of films that are readily available to view via digital media Discusses both canonical and obscure or neglected works Examines the effects of the growing diversification of experimental film scholarship A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a valuable resource for scholars of film studies and art history, curators and programmers, critics and bloggers, filmmakers and artists, and anyone interested in exploring experimental or avant-garde cinema.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119107903
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An exploration of what experimental cinema was, is, and might become A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a collection of original essays organized around both theoretical and historical issues of concern to film scholars, programmers, filmmakers, and viewers. Newly-commissioned essays written by specialists in the field, along with dialogues conducted with a diverse range of practitioners, focus on core subjects to present an international array of overlapping and contrasting perspectives. This unique text not only provides detailed accounts of particular films and filmmakers, but also discusses new approaches of understanding, characterizing, and shaping experimental cinema. The Companion offers readers an accessible point of entry to the material while seeking to contribute to scholarly debates. Essays explore a wide range of topics within the realm of experimental film, including the shift from traditional biography to broader contexts, the increased attention afforded to local and transnational circuits of exchange, and the deepening of theoretical considerations regarding cultural identity and cinematic aesthetics. Key themes and concepts are inter-woven throughout the text, offering fresh perspectives on experimental cinema’s dialogues with other modes and practices of film and video, its interactions with the non-cinematic arts, its responses to changing technological landscapes, and more. An essential addition to the field, the Companion: Balances introductory summaries and scholarly dialogue with existing literature Explores how the study of experimental cinema can benefit from scholarship in other disciplines Includes numerous analyses of films that are readily available to view via digital media Discusses both canonical and obscure or neglected works Examines the effects of the growing diversification of experimental film scholarship A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a valuable resource for scholars of film studies and art history, curators and programmers, critics and bloggers, filmmakers and artists, and anyone interested in exploring experimental or avant-garde cinema.
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
Author: Holly Rogers (Professor of music)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469897
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Holly Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. Book jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469897
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Holly Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. Book jacket.
Culture, Space, and Power
Author: David Walton
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498521665
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore how recent trends in globalization, nationalism, city design, and ruralist revival yield particular spatial morphologies. The second part of the volume investigates spaces of privacy and togetherness, including traditional settings for intimacy, such as the home, and enclosure, such as the prison, or the virtual locations created through digital media (cellphones, tablets and computers). At the same time, despite the two-part division into public and private, the volume stresses their connection and interdependency: the extent, that is, to which broader spatial configurations affect private, day-to-day practices and locations.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498521665
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore how recent trends in globalization, nationalism, city design, and ruralist revival yield particular spatial morphologies. The second part of the volume investigates spaces of privacy and togetherness, including traditional settings for intimacy, such as the home, and enclosure, such as the prison, or the virtual locations created through digital media (cellphones, tablets and computers). At the same time, despite the two-part division into public and private, the volume stresses their connection and interdependency: the extent, that is, to which broader spatial configurations affect private, day-to-day practices and locations.
Girl Head
Author: Genevieve Yue
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823289575
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation? Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art. This original work of feminist media history shows how gender has had a persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823289575
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation? Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art. This original work of feminist media history shows how gender has had a persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.
Pop Art and Popular Music
Author: Melissa L. Mednicov
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351187376
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism during the sixties. Artists, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol, respond to popular music for reasons such as its emotional connectivity, issues of fandom and identity, and the pleasures and problems of looking and listening to an artwork. When we both look at and listen to Pop art, essential aspects of Pop’s history that have been neglected—its sounds, its women, its queerness, and its black subjects—come into focus.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351187376
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism during the sixties. Artists, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol, respond to popular music for reasons such as its emotional connectivity, issues of fandom and identity, and the pleasures and problems of looking and listening to an artwork. When we both look at and listen to Pop art, essential aspects of Pop’s history that have been neglected—its sounds, its women, its queerness, and its black subjects—come into focus.
Su Friedrich
Author: Barbara Mennel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054806
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Auteurism expanded With acclaimed films like Sink or Swim and The Odds of Recovery, Su Friedrich’s body of work stands at the forefront of avant-garde and Queer cinema. Barbara Mennel examines the career of an experimental auteur whose merger of technical innovation and political critique connects with both cinephiles and activists. Friedrich’s integration of cinematic experimentation with lesbian advocacy serves as a beginning rather than an end point of analysis. With that in mind, Mennel provides an essential overview of the filmmaker’s oeuvre while highlighting the defining characteristics of her artistic and political signature. She also situates Friedrich within the cultural, political, and historical contexts that both shape the films and are shaped by them. Finally, Mennel expands our notion of auteurism to include directors who engage in collaborative and creative processes rooted in communities.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054806
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Auteurism expanded With acclaimed films like Sink or Swim and The Odds of Recovery, Su Friedrich’s body of work stands at the forefront of avant-garde and Queer cinema. Barbara Mennel examines the career of an experimental auteur whose merger of technical innovation and political critique connects with both cinephiles and activists. Friedrich’s integration of cinematic experimentation with lesbian advocacy serves as a beginning rather than an end point of analysis. With that in mind, Mennel provides an essential overview of the filmmaker’s oeuvre while highlighting the defining characteristics of her artistic and political signature. She also situates Friedrich within the cultural, political, and historical contexts that both shape the films and are shaped by them. Finally, Mennel expands our notion of auteurism to include directors who engage in collaborative and creative processes rooted in communities.
The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema
Author: Ronald Gregg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190878010
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars. The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190878010
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars. The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.
Textiles on Film
Author: Becky Peterson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350026573
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-en-scène are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over sets, serve as props, and develop mood and character as dress and décor. A much-needed examination of the cultural and emotional impact of textiles as mediated through cinematic technology, Textiles on Film broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between fabric and film. Drawing on scholarship across multiple disciplines and exploring a wide range of films-from lesser-known avant-garde films to big-budget Hollywood productions-this book will inspire scholars and students of film, fashion, and textiles. Close readings of on-screen textiles redirect meaning to that which is often overlooked, including depictions of gender expression, behind-the-scenes labor, and architectural and bodily ornamentation. Attentive to the social nuances of fabrics from polyester to velvet, and to the physical qualities of the textiles themselves, Becky Peterson unearths new possibilities for reading media and textile cultures.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350026573
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-en-scène are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over sets, serve as props, and develop mood and character as dress and décor. A much-needed examination of the cultural and emotional impact of textiles as mediated through cinematic technology, Textiles on Film broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between fabric and film. Drawing on scholarship across multiple disciplines and exploring a wide range of films-from lesser-known avant-garde films to big-budget Hollywood productions-this book will inspire scholars and students of film, fashion, and textiles. Close readings of on-screen textiles redirect meaning to that which is often overlooked, including depictions of gender expression, behind-the-scenes labor, and architectural and bodily ornamentation. Attentive to the social nuances of fabrics from polyester to velvet, and to the physical qualities of the textiles themselves, Becky Peterson unearths new possibilities for reading media and textile cultures.