New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
vii, 187 Seiten Illustrationen.
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 163-173
Experimental films -- History and criticism; Experimental art -- History and criticism; Transgression (Ethics) in art; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics; Film criticism; Art criticism
"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"--
von Oliver Klaassen ; Sampada Aranke ; Marie Sophie Beckmann ; Ashton Cooper ; Jakob Claus ; David Getsy ; Fatma Kargin ; Erica Rand ; Tillmann Schorstein ; Sophie Sexon ; William J. Simmons ; Siim Sorokin ; Lukas Töpfer
