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- English
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About this book
This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen's collaborative films, Wollen's solo feature film, Friendship's Death (1987), and Mulvey's later collaborations. Each text is followed by a new essay by a leading writer, offering a critical interpretation of the corresponding film. The collection also includes Wollen's short story Friendship's Death (1976), the outlines for two unrealised Mulvey and Wollen collaborations, and a selection of scanned working documents. The scripts and essays collected in this volume trace the historical significance of a complex cinematic project that brought feminist, semiotic and psychoanalytic concerns together with formal devices and strategies. The book includes original contributions from Nora M. Alter, Kodwo Eshun, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Volker Pantenburg, Griselda Pollock, B. Ruby Rich and Sukhdev Sandhu.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction Oliver Fuke
- Introduction Laura Mulvey
- Section 1 â Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollenâs Collaborative Films
- 1 Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
- 2 Scorch the Earth, Start from Zero: Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
- 3 Riddles of the Sphinx
- 4 Towards New Theoretical Instruments: Riddles of the Sphinx
- 5 AMY!
- 6 The Curse of Celebrity, Colonial Territory and the Flight to Freedom: AMY!
- 7 Crystal Gazing
- 8 Economic Forecasting and the End of the Avant-Garde: Crystal Gazing
- 9 Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
- 10 Muse, Mutilation, Mastery, Martyr: Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
- 11 The Bad Sister
- 12 Timeshifting: The Bad Sister
- Section 2 - Peter Wollenâs Friendshipâs Death
- 13 Friendshipâs Death (fiction)
- 14 Friendshipâs Death (script)
- 15 âAliens wherever they have to goâ: Friendshipâs Death
- Section 3 - Laura Mulveyâs Later Collaborative Films
- 16 Disgraced Monuments
- 17 Preserving History: Disgraced Monuments
- 18 23rd August 2008
- 19 Two Portraits: 23rd August 2008
- Section 4 - Outlines for Unmade Collaborative Films
- 20 Possible Worlds
- 21 Chess Fever
- Section 5 - Working Documents
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- eCopyright