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Zusatztext This noble and overdue compilation serves as a much-needed affirmation of their powerful cinematic oeuvre. Informationen zum Autor Oliver Fuke is an independent researcher. His projects include: Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Beyond the Scorched Earth of Counter-Cinema (Whitechapel Gallery, London; HOME, Manchester and NYU, New York) and Yvonne Rainer: The Choreography of Film (Siobhan Davies Dance, London, 2018). With Nicolas Helm-Grovas, he has curated a series of exhibitions related to Mulvey and Wollen’s work, at Peltz Gallery (London, 2019), Cooper Gallery (Dundee, 2020) and GAK: Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (Bremen, forthcoming 2021). Fuke has also developed many exhibitions and projects with artists. Klappentext This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen's collaborative films, Wollen's solo feature film, Friendship's Death (1987), and Mulvey's later collaborations. Each text is followed by a new essay by a leading writer, offering a critical interpretation of the corresponding film. The collection also includes Wollen's short story Friendship's Death (1976), the outlines for two unrealised Mulvey and Wollen collaborations, and a selection of scanned working documents. The scripts and essays collected in this volume trace the historical significance of a complex cinematic project that brought feminist, semiotic and psychoanalytic concerns together with formal devices and strategies. The book includes original contributions from Nora M. Alter, Kodwo Eshun, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Volker Pantenburg, Griselda Pollock, B. Ruby Rich and Sukhdev Sandhu. Vorwort Brings together the scripts of the films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, with critical interpretations of each film to highlight the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. Zusammenfassung This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen’s collaborative films, Wollen’s solo feature film, Friendship’s Death (1987), and Mulvey’s later collaborations. Each text is followed by a new essay by a leading writer, offering a critical interpretation of the corresponding film. The collection also includes Wollen’s short story Friendship’s Death (1976), the outlines for two unrealised Mulvey and Wollen collaborations, and a selection of scanned working documents. The scripts and essays collected in this volume trace the historical significance of a complex cinematic project that brought feminist, semiotic and psychoanalytic concerns together with formal devices and strategies. The book includes original contributions from Nora M. Alter, Kodwo Eshun, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Volker Pantenburg, Griselda Pollock, B. Ruby Rich and Sukhdev Sandhu. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Oliver Fuke Introduction Laura Mulvey Section 1 - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Collaborative Films 1. Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 2. Scorch the Earth, Start from Zero: Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons Nicolas Helm-Grovas 3. Riddles of the Sphinx Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 4. Towards New Theoretical Instruments : Riddles of the Sphinx Volker Pantenburg 5. AMY! Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 6. The Curse of Celebrity, Colonial Territory and the Flight to Freedom: AMY! Griselda Pollock 7. Crystal Gazing Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 8. Economic For...
