Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001

• Author(s): Joan Hawkins,
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Pages: 380
• ISBN_10: 1783204222
  ISBN_13: 9781783204229
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Performing Arts / Television / General , Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism ,

Description:... "Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975 2001" brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger filmmakers, community access cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture. The book includes J. Hoberman s essay No Wavelength: The Parapunk Underground, as well as historical essays by Tony Conrad and Lynne Tillman, interviews with filmmakers Bette Gordon and Beth B., and essays by Ivan Kral and Nick Zedd."