Films That Spill

Beyond the Cinema of Transgression

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by Marie Sophie Beckmann

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Keywords: aesthetics, experimental
Publishing date: 2025 (March 11, 2025)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English

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Paperback • 182 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9788396-5-6

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Book Presentation:
Films That Spill is a comprehensive study of the Cinema of Transgression, a hitherto under-examined moment in US underground film culture. Reconsidering the concept of transgressive cinema not only as a description of the intentionally provocative content of the films, but rather as a feature of a cross-disciplinary practice, the book explores how filmmaking in the context of the vibrant and intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes in 1980s Lower Manhattan spilled over the boundaries of artistic disciplines, media formats, and content concepts. This study not only provides a microhistory of these scenes and insight into their afterlife in archives and exhibitions. It also represents an innovative contribution to debates within film, media, and visual culture about the methodological and historiographical challenges posed by the expansion of film beyond the discursive boundaries of cinema.

About the Author:
MARIE SOPHIE BECKMANN is a postdoctoral researcher at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg's Institute for Art and Visual Culture.

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