Publication

1990 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

58,500 words, Guess

Page Count

234 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number89045804
  • Goodreads4434804
  • LibraryThing823260

Classifications

  • DDC791.43/0973/09047
  • LCCPN1995.9.E96 M45 1990

Description

Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Theories of contemporary culture ;

Other Editions

  • Indiscretions: avant-garde film, video & feminismIndiana University Press1990-01-01

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