...Dana Polan Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ij I Complexity and Contradiction in Mass-Culture Analysis: On len Ang's Watching Dallas (New York: Methuen, 1985) Dana Polan There seem to be two very different books in len Ang's...

...Jane Weinstock Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) Out of Her Mind: Fantasies of the 26th New York Film Festival by Jane Weinstock You could say it was the Year of the Other at the New...

...Janet Bergstrom For this interview, cinematographer, photographer, and filmmaker Babette Mangolte agreed to focus on her collaborations as cinematographer with Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman on her 1970s New York films. Besides Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, Mangolte brought in the art...

...Marc Francis This article examines a series of recent films that seeks to represent the often conflated categories of asexuality and singlehood. The films (A)sexual (dir. Angela Tucker, US, 2011), Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White, US, 2007), and Bill Cunningham New York (dir. Richard Press, US...

... Volkes Feminism 101: The New York Women’s Video Festival, 1972–1980 Melinda Barlow From 1972 to 1980, the New York Women’s Video Festival was the primary showcase for work by American women videomakers. A landmark annual event founded by Steina Vasulka in 1972 to address the dearth...

.... The relationship of the project to the development of feminist film studies, the production conditions for women's filmmaking in Latin America, the contemporary climate for distribution and exhibition in New York City (along with public funding structures), and the cultivation of new Latina/Latino audiences in New...

... to vulnerable audiences, even as the same model/actress appeared, frequently in partial or fully nude poses, in public statuary throughout New York City. Purity and Munson's performance in the film provide previously uninterrogated evidence of the extensive anxiety around female nudity and the efforts...

... organizations, these critiques often fail to consider how queer Palestinians mobilize and understand themselves. This article reports on an October 2011 panel and film screening at Yale University and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. “Queer/Palestinian: Critical...

... to address the under- and misrepresentation of women in film and media; today, the New York–based nonprofit supports the creation and circulation of independent film and media by and about women through its production assistance program, extensive distribution service, and advocacy role. The conversation...

... productively deform Western conceptualizations of the aesthetic. In February 2011, Copeland interviewed Leonard about her practice and its implications for feminist approaches to vision, history, and the archive. Their conversation took place at the College Art Association annual conference in New York as part...

... York or from hotel rooms around the world. In these purposefully dedramatized spaces “nothing happens”— nothing, that is, but a series of profound and moving encounters between Akerman and her mother, Natalia (Nelly), a survivor of Auschwitz whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. Bracha Ettinger’s...

...Kenneth White Abstract This is an introduction to a dossier on the work and life of Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019). Schneemann was celebrated in a memorial service at Judson Memorial Church in New York. The service included Malcolm Goldstein's improvisational performance on violin titled Soundings...

...Yvonne Rainer Abstract The essay celebrates Carolee Schneemann, the author's friend and colleague since their first meeting in the early 1960s at Judson Memorial Church, New York. The essay describes the author's and Schneemann's participation in the dance workshops at Judson. The essay cites...

... mourning. The essay was composed originally for the memorial service for Schneemann at Judson Memorial Church, New York, on 3 May 2019. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 Carolee Schneemann Interior Scroll Judson Dance Theater performance art voice...

...Figure 3. Fantastic Architecture , edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell (New York: Something Else Press, 1970). Front cover: Richard Hamilton, Guggenheim Collage , 1967 ...

...Vanessa Haroutunian Abstract This essay describes how the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant came into fruition, created by the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer and administered through the New York City nonprofit organization Queer|Art. In 2017, Hammer...