Downtown film and TV culture : 1975-2001 /: 1975-2001. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joan Hawkins.
• Editors: Hawkins, Joan, 1953-
• Contents: Downtown Cinema Revisited - Joan Hawkins Acknowledgements Downtown Body - Ward Shelley Part I: Moments Chapter 1: In the Movie-Viewing Machine: Essential Cinema and the 1970s - David Sterritt Chapter 2: No Wavelength: The Para-Punk Underground - J. Hoberman Chapter 3: At Last Real Movies: Super 8 Cinema from New York - Tony Conrad Chapter 4: Downtown’s Room in Hotel History - Lynne Tillman Part II: Scenes Chapter 5: The Blank Generation and Punk/Downtown History - Mark Benedetti Chapter 6: Birth of the Blank Generation - Ivan and Cindy Kral Chapter 7: Downtown Godard - Jonathan Everett Haynes Chapter 8: ‘A Crack in the Veneer’: A Conversation with Beth B - Beth B and Joan Hawkins Chapter 9: Lydia Lunch, The Right Side of My Brain - Chuck Kleinhans Chapter 10: Pleasure and Danger: Bette Gordon’s Variety - Joan Hawkins Chapter 11: Interview with Bette Gordon - Bette Gordon and Joan Hawkins Chapter 12: The Time of His Life: Spalding Gray - Laurie Stone Chapter 13: Mixing Blag Flag, DIY, Lo-Fi, and Oulipo: Jon Moritsugu’s Mommy Mommy Where’s My Brain - Jack Sargeant Chapter 14: Cast Iron TV and Friends: Artists’ Public Access in Manhattan - Terese Svoboda Chapter 15: TV Party: A Cocktail Party That Could Also be a Political Party - Benjamin Olin Chapter 16: The Case of Electra Elf: Towards New Possibilities of Underground Counterculture in the Twenty-First Century - Nick Zedd and David Sjöberg Chapter 17: Cock Worship: Todd Haynes, Fassbinder, and Queer Praxis - Chris Dumas Chapter 18: Downtown’s Queer Asides - Lucas Hilderbrand, Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, and Ricardo Montez Part III: Memorials Chapter 19: Canonization and No Wave Cinema History - Mark Benedetti Chapter 20: The Downtown Scene in the Digital Era - Laurel Westrup Chapter 21: You Had to be There: The Downtown Archive and the Future of an Impossible Past - Richard Toon and Laurie Stone Chapter 22: The Centre Cannot Hold: Blank City (2010) and the Problems of Historicizing New York’s Independent Cinema of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s - Juan Carlos Kase Chapter 23: Experimental Film - Chris Kraus Filmography and Videography - Mark Benedetti
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4309747109045; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Television -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783204236; 1783204230
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.