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Points of Resistance: Women, Power and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71 » (2nd)

Book cover image of Points of Resistance: Women, Power and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71 by Lauren Rabinovitz

Authors: Lauren Rabinovitz
ISBN-13: 9780252071249, ISBN-10: 0252071247
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: 2nd

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Author Biography: Lauren Rabinovitz

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
1Introduction: The Woman Filmmaker in the New York Avant-garde1
2The Meanings of the Avant-garde13
3Avant-garde Cinemas before World War II37
4Maya Deren and an American Avant-garde Cinema49
5Shirley Clarke and the Expansion of American Independent Cinema92
6Joyce Wieland and the Ascendancy of Structural Film150
7After the Avant-garde: Joyce Wieland and New Avant-gardes in the 1970s184
8Afterword: Women Sneaking around Museums216
Filmography226
Film Distribution Sources227
Bibliography229
Index244

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