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The Films of Yvonne Rainer

Author : Yvonne Rainer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253116222
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Yvonne Rainer written by Yvonne Rainer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-12-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scÃ ̈ne are as key to how Rainer's films work as is language." -- The Independent "The scripts record the unique structure of [Rainer's] films, the stresses, strains, and crackling of voices layering over and into one another. Their publication is an important moment for feminist film." -- Cineaste "Rainer's films are not highly accessible but are important to the critical imagination as an example of the sustained exploration of political and feminist theory." -- Choice "Rainer's important work in the area of avant-garde filmmaking in the seventies and eighties is amply recorded in this book... " -- Cantrills Filmnotes' The scripts of Rainer's five films, presented here along with essays, an interview, and bibliography, demonstrate the evolution of her political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of mainstream culture and cinema.

Work 1961-73

Author : Yvonne Rainer
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ; New York : New York University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Work 1961-73 written by Yvonne Rainer and published by Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ; New York : New York University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a shopping trip to the department store, Max's determination to get a dragon shirt leads him away from his distracted sister and into trouble.

Radical Juxtaposition

Author : Shelley Green
Publisher : Scarecrow Filmmakers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Radical Juxtaposition written by Shelley Green and published by Scarecrow Filmmakers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of Yvonne Rainer, an avante-garde filmmaker with film credits covering over 20 years. Green's attention falls specifically on Rainer's treatment of gender and multiculture issues. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Feelings are Facts

Author : Yvonne Rainer
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Feelings are Facts written by Yvonne Rainer and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals--including breakfast--have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. --from Feelings Are Facts In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts(the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham (and heard Graham declare, "when you accept yourself as a woman, you will have turn-out"--that is, achieve proper ballet position) and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962 (dancing with Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, David Gordon, and Lucinda Childs), hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and anti-war causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how she constructed her dances--including The Mind Is a Muscleand its famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer Dies the Swan--and about turning from dance to film and back to dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life. The mosaic-like construction of Feelings Are Factsrecalls the composition-by-juxtaposition of Rainer's work in film and dance, displaying prismatic variations from what she calls her "reckless past" for our amazement and appreciation.

A Woman Who--

Author : Yvonne Rainer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801860799
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A Woman Who-- written by Yvonne Rainer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her work has been the subject of more than a dozen retrospectives, most recently at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and has earned her numerous honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations."--BOOK JACKET. "The latest volume in PAJ's Art + Performance series, A Woman Who ... is a wide-ranging collection of Rainer's interviews, essays, talks, and other writings."--BOOK JACKET.

Being Watched

Author : Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262516071
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Being Watched written by Carrie Lambert-Beatty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing; how it connected 1960s avant-garde art to politics and activism. In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body—stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie Lambert-Beatty argues in Being Watched that the crucial site of Rainer's interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer than the eye of the viewer—or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer's art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is structured by a peculiar tension between the body and its display. Through close readings of Rainer's works of the 1960s—from the often-discussed dance Trio A to lesser-known Vietnam war-era protest dances—Lambert-Beatty explores how these performances embodied what Rainer called “the seeing difficulty.” (As Rainer said: “Dance is hard to see.”) Viewed from this perspective, Rainer's work becomes a bridge between key episodes in postwar art. Lambert-Beatty shows how Rainer's art (and related performance work in Happenings, Fluxus, and Judson Dance Theater) connects with the transformation of the subject-object relation in minimalism and with emerging feminist discourse on the political implications of the objectifying gaze. In a spectacle-soaked era, moreover—when images of war played nightly on the television news—Rainer's work engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-media America, linking avant-garde art and the wider culture of the 1960s. Rainer is significant, argues Lambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer, but as a sculptor of spectatorship.

Poems

Author : Yvonne Rainer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936440108
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Yvonne Rainer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America's greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were written from the late 1990s onwards and have never before been published, affirms her ability to endow words with corporeality, propulsion and swift-moving narrative. Full of wit and candor, Rainer's poems evoke the rhythm of an urban landscape peopled with old friends and colleagues, trying to make art or simply trying to make ends meet. Memories entangle with news headlines and conversations overheard on the subway, making the poems feel both intimate yet social. Accompanying the poems is a selection of black-and-white images curated by Rainer, varying from news clippings to intimate photographs from Rainer's personal archive. Poet and critic Tim Griffin contributes an introduction.

Chick Flicks

Author : B. Ruby Rich
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321217
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Chick Flicks written by B. Ruby Rich and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, "Chick Flicks" captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done. 22 photos.

The Woman at the Keyhole

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115041
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Woman at the Keyhole written by Judith Mayne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-12-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s." -- SubStance "... this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's filmmaking on the main stage.... serves at once as introduction and original contribution to the debates structuring the field. Erudite but never obscure, effectively argued but not polemical, The Woman at the Keyhole should prove to be a valuable text for courses on women and cinema." -- The Independent When we imagine a "woman" and a "keyhole," it is usually a woman on the other side of the keyhole, as the proverbial object of the look, that comes to mind. In this work the author is not necessarily reversing the conventional image, but rather asking what happens when women are situated on both sides of the keyhole. In all of the films discussed, the threshold between subject and object, between inside and outside, between virtually all opposing pairs, is a central figure for the reinvention of cinematic narrative.

The Concrete Body

Author : Elise Archias
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217978
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Concrete Body written by Elise Archias and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. When the Body Is the Material -- 1 Hurray for People: Yvonne Rainer -- 2 Concretions: Carolee Schneemann -- 3 Reasons to Move: Vito Acconci -- Coda. Forming the Senses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustration Credits

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Author : Richard Porton
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842614
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Film and the Anarchist Imagination written by Richard Porton and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early cinema of Griffith and René Clair, to the work of Godard, Lina Wertmuller and Ken Loach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of anarchism in film.

Screendance

Author : Douglas Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199772622
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Screendance written by Douglas Rosenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. This book weaves together theory from art and dance as well as appropriate historical reference material to propose a new theory of screendance, one that frames it within the discourse of post-modern art practice.

Revisions

Author : Yvonne Rainer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 194948405X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Revisions written by Yvonne Rainer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final iteration of Rainer's dance rant A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time account of Rainer's creative process. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer has long investigated the ways in which movement can be a political act in and of itself—on the stage, on the screen, or at the lectern. In Revisions, Rainer pushes her interest in embodied activism to a new arena: what she calls the “dance rant.” This volume includes the final iteration of Rainer's latest dance rant, entitled A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies. This performance piece evolved in live presentations in Dublin, Stockholm, and New York before being expanded and adapted in written form here. In this now-completed work, Rainer mobilizes her rage and bafflement at contemporary political events through the guise of Apollo, Leader of the Muses. Revisions also includes a compilation of emails and diary entries that provide a real-time account of Rainer's process of creating and workshopping a dance. “Pedagogical Vaudeville 3” reveals Rainer's consistent interest in reworking and reconsidering material across multiple mediums, formats, and contexts, and offers an unique glimpse at the working methods of one of this century's preeminent dance artists. Bookended with an introduction by artist and scholar Gregg Bordowitz and an analysis of Rainer's AG Indexical with a Little Help from H. M. by dance historian Anna Staniczenko, these texts serve not only as a revision of the conventional understanding of five decades of Rainer's production, but also as a timely manual for performance as an act of resistance.

Democracy's Body

Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313991
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Democracy's Body written by Sally Banes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judson Dance Theater involved such collaborators as Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Carolee Schneemann, Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, et al.

Yvonne Rainer

Author : Catherine Wood
Publisher : Afterall Books
ISBN 13 : 9781846380389
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Yvonne Rainer written by Catherine Wood and published by Afterall Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extended exploration of Yvonne Rainer's influential 1968 dance program The Mind is a Muscle, discussing its critique of relations between labor and value, its relationship to 1960s art practice in New York, leisure time in postwar America, and the mind-body duality.

Indiscretions

Author : Patricia Mellencamp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115997
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Indiscretions written by Patricia Mellencamp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit.

Avant-Garde Film

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521388214
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Avant-Garde Film written by Scott MacDonald and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-02-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past thirty years have seen the proliferation of forms of independent cinema that challenge the conventions of mass-market commercial movies from within the movie theatre. Avant-Garde Film examines fifteen of the most suggestive and useful films from this film tradition. The films discussed include No. 4 (Bottoms) by Yoko Ono, Wavelength by Michael Snow, Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr, Print Generation by J. J. Murphy, Standard Gauge by Morgan Fisher, Zorns Lemma by Hollis Frampton, The Ties that Bind by Su Friedrich, From the Pole to the Equator by Yervant Gianikian and The Carriage Trade by Warren Sonbert. Through in-depth readings of these works, Scott MacDonald takes viewers on a critical circumnavigation of the conventions of movie going as seen by filmmakers who have rebelled against the conventions. MacDonald's discussions do not merely analyse the films; they provide a useful, accessible, jargon-free critical apparatus for viewing avant-garde film and communicate the author's pleasure in exploring 'impenetrable' works.