Stefano Piselli, Riccardo Morrocchi (eds.): Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema, 1968-1972 (2004) [English/Italian]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, body, cinema, eroticism, film, film history, nudity, sexuality
Franco the libertine, Ella the nymphomaniac, Gilberto the mad sadist, Sayer the aesthete sadist, Mary the homicidal mantis, Ahmed the debauched, X. the vicious politician, X. the fanatic and moralist judge, Kay the sexually dissatisfied, the mysterious Greta, Diana the arrogant mistress and her black servant Janita, Santino the foot fetichist, the psychopatic Dr. Lyutak, the submissive Marcia, the refined Lesbians Paula and Mudy, Silvia the happy masochist… These are the eccentric characters enliving the stories of this anthology of Italian movies from the so-called Sexual Revolution, featured in the form of “cineromanzo”. Krafft-Ebing’s theories, Sade’s fantasies, Freud’s analyses in a mix of sequences chosen from rare Italian magazines of the 1970s.
Publisher Glittering Images, Firenze, 2004
ISBN 8882750477
104 pages
PDF (21 MB)
See also Bizarre Sinema! Jess Franco. El sexo del horror, 1999. (in English/Italian, 30 MB, no OCR)
Sally Banes: Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (1980/87)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, body, choreography, dance, theatre
“Sally Banes writes criticism with a dancer’s feel for dancing, a personal acquaintance with the choreographers she writes about, a solid knowledge of critical theory, and an awareness of the many relationships of post-modernism to the contemporary cultural context. Terpsichore in Sneakers is a first-rate contribution to our post-modern dance.
Banes restricts her discussion to ten choreographers: six members of Robert Dunn’s 1960-62 composition workshop (Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti), all but the last of whom were early members of the Judson Dance Theater, three second-generation Judson choreographers (Meredith Monk, Kenneth King, Lucinda Childs), and Doug Dunn, who performed with Rainer, Paxton, Brown, and Gordon in the Grand Union.” (from the review by Milton H. Snoeyenbos, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1980)
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1980
Publisher Wesleyan University Press, 1987
With a new Introduction
ISBN 0819561606
311 pages
Commentary (André Lepecki, Dance Theatre Journal, 1999)
EPUB
See also films and videos in UbuWeb’s dance section
W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.): Critical Terms for Media Studies (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, autopoiesis, body, communication, cybernetics, image, information theory, language, law, mass media, media, media studies, media theory, memory, networks, posthuman, software, technology, writing
“Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this collection of essays explores critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. The essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.”
Contributors: Johanna Drucker (Art), Bernadette Wegenstein (Body), Bill Brown (Materiality), Bernard Stiegler (Memory), Caroline Jones (Senses), Eugene Thacker (Biomedia), Bruce Clarke (Communication, Information), N. Katherine Hayles (Cybernetics), Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Hardware / Software / Wetware), John Johnston (Technology), David Graeber (Exchange), Cary Wolfe (Language), Peter Goodrich (Law), John Durham Peters (Mass Media), Alexander R. Galloway (Networks), David Wellbery (Systems), Lydia H. Liu (Writing), and W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen (Image, Time and Space, New Media).
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2010
ISBN 0226532666, 9780226532660
376 pages