Indiscretions
Subtitle: avant-garde film, video & feminism
By: Patricia Mellencamp.
Series: Theories of contemporary culture ;; v. 12
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Experimental films -- History and criticism; Feminism and motion pictures
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231) and index.