Other Cinemas

Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s

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Edited by Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey

Type: Essays
Subject: On Films > Per period
Keywords: 1970s, politics, sociology
Publishing date: 2017
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Language: English

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Hardcover • 368 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78453-718-0

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Book Presentation:
The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cinephiles, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences.
Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as William Raban and Stephen Dwoskin - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially aware film practice without which today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices would have struggled to gather such volume.

About the authors:
Sue Clayton is a screenwriter and film director, and Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her films include The Song of the Shirt (1979), The Disappearance of Finbar (1996) and The Last Crop (1990). She has made 14 award-winning documentaries for Channel 4, BBC, and Central, and a number of music videos.Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), and Visual and Other Pleasures (2nd edition, 2010), and the BFI Film Classic on Citizen Kane (1992, 2012).

Press Reviews:
"An invaluable reference source for academics, researchers and the wider public less familiar with this significant period of British film history."
(William Raban, University of the Arts London; director of Thames Film (1986))

"This anthology brilliantly reflects the struggles and achievements of a generation of filmmakers and film scholars outside Britain’s commercial entertainment industry. Edited by two key figures from the movement and introducing texts by leading contemporary scholars on this period, this book offers new insights into a vibrant, influential and often highly contested film culture."
(David Curtis, BAFVSC, Central Saint Martins)

"This superb collection of essays presents a very timely reconsideration of many key independent and radical films of the 1970s, their context of production and exhibition then, and their continuing importance for the aesthetics and politics of image-making in our current era of the digital and global." (Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent)

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