Flesh cinema : the corporeal turn in American avant-garde film /

Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed Am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Osterweil, Ara (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Series:	Rethinking art's histories.
Subjects:	Warhol, Andy, > is Andrijku Warhola, > 1928-1987. Rubin, Barbara, > 1945-1980. Brakhage, Stan, > 1933-2003. Schneemann, Carolee, > 1939- Ono, Yoko, > 1933- Sharits, Paul, > 1943-1993. Warhol, Andy, > 1928-1987. Sharits, Paul , > 1943-1993. Experimental films > United States > History and criticism. Experimental films. United States. Experimentalfilm. Körper > Motiv. USA. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Saint Barbara: the apocryphal, ecstatic cinema of Barbara Rubin
Andy Warhol, porn realist
Stan Brakhage: acts of seeing
Carolee Schneemann: meat joys
Yoko Ono's body count
Paul Sharits, beyond the pleasure principle.