Harun Farocki: Nachdruck / Imprint – Texte / Writings (2001) [DE/EN]

30 July 2015, dusan

“This book brings together a selection of writings produced by Harun Farocki between 1977 and 1999. They provide an insight into Farocki’s filmic work and its underlying querying of the status, production, and perception of images conveyed technically and through media. As a critical observer of political and cultural events, Farocki reveals the images’ hidden content in his films and writings, freeing them from the detritus of the encoding with which they have been covered in the course of their development, their use in various media and subsequent reception. Farocki’s deconstructive reflections establish new standards not only for the aesthetics of film but for visual art as well.”

Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of Harun Farocki at the Westfälischer Kunstverein and Filmclub Münster, June-August 2001.

Edited by Susanne Gänsheimer and Nicolaus Schafhausen
Introduction by Volker Pantenburg
English translation by Laurent Faasch-Ibrahim
Publisher Vorwerk 8, Berlin, and Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2001
ISBN 393091641X, 9783930916412
323 pages
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Peter Rist, Timothy Barnard (eds.): South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994 (1996)

25 July 2015, dusan

“A team of contributors has compiled entries on 140 significant South American feature and documentary films from the silent era until 1994. The entries discuss each film’s subject matter, critical reception, and social and political contexts, as well as its production, distribution, and exhibition history, including technical credits.”

Publisher Garland Publishing, New York and London, 1996
ISBN 0824045742, 9780824045746
xx+405 pages

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B. Ruby Rich: Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement (1998)

17 December 2014, dusan

“If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women’s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, Chick Flicks—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures the birth and growth of feminist film.

For over three decades Rich has been one of the most important voices in feminist film criticism. Her presence at film festivals, her film reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program “The World” have secured her a place as a central figure in the history of what she deems “cinefeminism.” In the hope that a new generation of feminist film culture might be revitalized by reclaiming its own history, Rich introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose. Travel, softball, sex, and voodoo all somehow fit into a book that includes classic Rich articles covering such topics as the antiporn movement, the films of Yvonne Rainer, a Julie Christie visit to Washington, and the historically evocative film Mädchen in Uniform.”

Publisher Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1998
ISBN 0822321211, 9780822321217
448 pages

Review (Linda Mizejewski, Women’s Review of Books, c1998)
Review (Susan Lord, Film Studies, c1999)
Review (Felicity Collins, 1999)

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See also Women and Film Project initiated in 2013 by Clarissa Jacob and Kate Wieteska.