Other Cinemas
Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s
Laura Mulvey editor Sue Clayton editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:11th Mar '21
£29.99
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Leading scholars and practitioners, Laura Mulvey and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema.
The innovations and debates in experimental film in the 1970s have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cine-philes, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences. Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as William Raban and Stephen Dwoskin - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially-aware film practice. Without this body of work, today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices in cinema would have struggled to gather such impact.
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
This book is distinctive in the way it gathers different threads and focuses on actual films and exhibition practices while at the same maintaining an approach that privileges critical theory. It also benefits from the editorial policy of commissioning partly from people who, like the editors, participated in the 1970s movement and partly from much younger authors. -- The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
As befits its subject, the loose network of film and video collectives which bloomed in the wake of 1968, this edited collection offers a variety of angles whose effect is cumulative. The ‘other cinemas’ of the title ranged from the agit-prop Cinema Action to Black Audio Film Collective; from Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, closely associated with Screen, house journal of cine-structuralism, to the ‘structural/materialist’ London Film-Makers’ Co-op, whose members at their most extreme rejected all forms of representation; and from the feminist Circles screening collective to the ‘subjective documentarist’ Stephen Dwoskin. -- Sight & Sound
ISBN: 9781350213128
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 494g
368 pages