Dika The (Moving) Pictures Generation

The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-11851-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten, eBook

Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dika, V.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Downtown New York in the Late 1970s and Beyond Part I: (Moving) Pictures (Moving) Pictures: Introduction Stillness/Movement: Joseph Cornell, Edison Company, Andy Warhol, Jack Goldstein The Female Body and the Film Frame: Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman Vivienne Dick's Film Portraits Part II: Community Amos Poe and the New York New Wave Downtown and Community: Eric Mitchell, James Nares, Nan Goldin Part III: Narrative Expectations Strategies of Transformation: Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman Strategies of Opposition: Eric Mitchell, Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie Borden Part IV: The Cinematic Body Performance and the Cinematic: Paul Swan , Eric Bogosian The Ephemeral Body/The Female Voice: Louise Lawler, Ericka Beckman Part V: Downtown and the Mainstream Incursions into Popular Culture: Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Kathryn Bigelow Conclusion and Continuation

Über Autor(innen)

Vera Dika is Associate Professor of Film Studies at New Jersey City University, USA. She is the author of Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia (2003) and a founding editor of Millennium Film Journal .