Description
The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film.
About the Author
Sue Clayton is a screenwriter and film director, and Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her films include The Song of the Shirt (1979), The Disappearance of Finbar (1996) and The Last Crop (1990). She has made 14 award-winning documentaries for Channel 4, BBC, and Central, and a number of music videos. Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the acclaimed author of: Visual and Other Pleasures (1989; second edition 2009), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996; second edition 2013), Citizen Kane (1992; second edition 2012) and Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006). She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) and Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1984) as well as Disgraced Monuments (1996) with artist/filmmaker Mark Lewis.
Reviews
An invaluable reference source for academics, researchers and the wider public less familiar with this significant period of British film history. -- William Raban, University of the Arts London, UK
This anthology brilliantly reflects the struggles and achievements of a generation of filmmakers and film scholars outside Britain's commercial entertainment industry. Edited by two key figures from the movement and introducing texts by leading contemporary scholars on this period, this book offers new insights into a vibrant, influential and often highly contested film culture. -- David Curtis, BAFVSC, Central Saint Martins, UK
This superb collection of essays presents a very timely reconsideration of many key independent and radical films of the 1970s, their context of production and exhibition then, and their continuing importance for the aesthetics and politics of image-making in our current era of the digital and global. -- Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781784537180
Author Sue Clayton
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 593g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 25mm