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"The video work of Steve Fagin . . . is masterful and humorous enough to be spellbinding. . . . Seemingly unrelated images are held together by the Krazy Glue of Fagin's brilliant script, which expertly uses language to convey the common themes of conflict between an original slice of life and a copy, a lie and an illusion, a fictitious voyage and one that becomes absolutely real because the video maker has made it so."--Mary Beth Crain, " L.A. Weekl"y (from a review of" The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel")
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword / Victoria Gill xi
Introduction / Steve Fagin and Victoria Gil 1
Virtual Play: The Double Direct Monkey Wrench in Black's Machinery (1984)
Waking and Shaking / Margaret Morse 29
Excerpts from
Virtual Play / Steve Fagin 38
Dear Steve / Gregg Bordowitz 41
Lou: A Superficial Look / Leslie Dick 46
The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel (1986)
The Occidental Tourist: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Travelers / Vivian Sobchack 63
An Interview with Steve Fagin / Peter Wollen 78
Script of
The Amazing Voyage / Steve Fagin 103
For Steve Fagin Who Made
The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel Whose Fathers and Mothers / Constance DeJong 143
A Woman's Face / Mark Rappaport 169
In Search of the Big Perfect / Barry Gifford 212
The Machine That Killed Bad People (1990)
Disastrous Events / Patricia Mellencamp 223
Machine Talk / Steve Fagin 237
Excerpts from
The Machine / Steve Fagin 244
Updates: Doubled Histories / Vicente L. Rafael 247
Voice-Over I / Trinh T. Minh-ha 261
TV Guidance / Andrew Ross 281
Zero Degrees Latitude (1993)
Confessions of a Quiet American: Fagin's Anemic Anesthetics / Ivone Margulies 295
Voice-Over from
Zero Degrees Latitude / Steve Fagin 307
Out in Left Field / Constance Penley 310
Excerpts from
Zero Degrees Latitude / Documentary Voices 323
Diary / Bertha Jottar 324
Memorial Day (Observed) (1995)
Ohio Impromptu / Bill Horrigan 357
Excerpts from
Memorial Day (
Observed) / Steve Fagin 365
Last Words
Faces, Boxes, and
The Moves / John Welchman 369
Notes 391
Contributors 399
About the author
Steve Fagin, ed.
Summary
A collection of essays by leading cultural studies authors on the video work of artist Steve Fagin, together with excerpts from scripts and illustrations from his work.
