Films That Spill

Beyond the Cinema of Transgression

Marie Sophie Beckmann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3965-6 (ISBN)

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Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes of the time and a glimpse into their afterlives.

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.

MARIE SOPHIE BECKMANN is a postdoctoral researcher at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg's Institute for Art and Visual Culture.

Introduction: Spilling/Containment
1          Forgetting the Cinema of Transgression
2          Downtown Images
3          Film Happens
4          Afterlife Formats
Coda: Keep on Spilling
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

Introduction: Spilling/Containment 1
1 Forgetting the Cinema of Transgression 20
2 Downtown Images 41
3 Film Happens 68
4 Afterlife Formats 101
Coda: Keep on Spilling 129
Appendix 131
Acknowledgments 133
Notes 135
Bibliography 163
Index 000

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.3.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 bw images, 6 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-9788-3965-0 / 1978839650
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3965-6 / 9781978839656
Zustand	Neuware