Films That Spill - Beyond the Cinema of Transgression

Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes of the time and a glimpse into their afterlives.
 

List of contents

Introduction: Spilling/Containment               
1          Forgetting the Cinema of Transgression       
2          Downtown Images                                        
3          Film Happens                                    
4          Afterlife Formats       
Coda: Keep on Spilling
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

About the author

MARIE SOPHIE BECKMANN is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Sophie Beckmann
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9781978839656
• ISBN: 978-1-978839-65-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; New York, New York City, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Film & Video, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Art & design styles: from c 1960, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1980 to c 1989, Electronic, holographic & video art, Film Theory & Criticism, Digital, video and new media arts, Film history, theory or criticism, The arts: general topics, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century