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Zusatztext In her joining of the dots between the key subject matter and the ‘contextualising scaffold’ of punk, as well as her situating of the filmmakers’ art practices within the wider economic, cultural and political contexts, Garfield’s work is a thoroughly informative, entertaining and riveting book. Informationen zum Autor Rachel Garfield is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading, UK. She an artist who works in video and also writes on contemporary art. Garfield is the Principle Investigator of a large Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project "The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin" (2019-2021). Klappentext Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new "punk audio visual aesthetic". A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s and 2000s. Zusammenfassung Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new “punk audio visual aesthetic”. A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contemporaries worked in a pre-digital, analogue modality that nevertheless influenced the emergent digital audio visual culture of the 1990s and 2000s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Do it Yourself and the Amateur 2. The Last of the Modern Two - Visualizing Women, Otherness and the Cosmopolitan Punk 3. Feminism, Visualising the Kitchen Table and Do-It-Yourself: in Praise of the Fragment Part 1 4. Kracauer Disintegration and Punk: In Praise of the Fragment Part 2 5. Representation and the Inability to Situate: the Undecidability of Women's Punk Conclusion Bibliography ...
