The (Moving) Pictures Generation

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-60177-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dika, Vera

Dika, V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

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.