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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Keller, Sarah (19..-.... ; professeur)
Titre(s) : Barbara Hammer [Texte imprimé] : pushing out of the frame / Sarah Keller
Publication : Detroit [Michigan] : Wayne State University Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 225 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Queer screens
Lien à la collection : Queer screens
Note(s) : "Barbara Hammer filmography": pages 201-206. - Includes bibliographical references
(pages 207-211) and index
"Barbara Hammer tends to be best known for her work from the 1970s. In those years,
she radically represents female subjects and subjectivity in a series of films that
are both part of and ahead of their time. Films like Dyketactics (1974), Menses (1974),
Superdyke (1975), and Multiple Orgasm (1976) explore lesbian sexuality, feminist identity,
and social activism. Hammer recorded non-actors (including herself) in frank acts
of lesbian sex; showed parts of the female experience (and anatomy) usually elided
in filmic depictions of women; staged rituals portraying women in various attitudes
of empowerment; and subsequently provided models for feminist action and power. Granting
exposure to a decidedly feminist and lesbian sensibility starting with these early
films, Hammer has frequently and rightly been seen as a pioneer of queer cinema. If
her productivity had been limited to the 1970s, her importance to queer film and art
histories would still be assured, though perhaps skewed a bit toward frameworks of
identity for understanding her artistic commitments" ; "Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out
of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual
artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a series
of films representing lesbian subjects and subjectivity. Over the five decades that
followed, she made almost a hundred films and solidified her position as a pioneer
of queer experimental cinema and art. In the first chapter, Keller covers Hammer's
late 1960s–1970s work and explores the tensions between the representation of women's
bodies and contemporary feminist theory. In the second chapter, Keller charts the
filmmaker's physical move from the Bay Area to New York City, resulting in shifts
in her artistic mode. The third chapter turns to Hammer's primarily documentary work
of the 1990s and how it engages with the places she travels, the people she meets,
and the histories she explores. In the fourth chapter, Keller then considers Hammer's
legacy, both through the final films of her career—which combine the methods and ideas
of the earlier decades—and her efforts to solidify and shape the ways in which the
work would be remembered. In the final chapter, excerpts from the author's interviews
with Hammer during the last three years of her life offer intimate perspectives and
reflections on her work from the filmmaker herself. Hammer's full body of work as
a case study allows readers to see why a much broader notion of feminist production
and artistic process is necessary to understand art made by women in the past half
century. Hammer's work—classically queer and politically feminist—presses at the edges
of each of those notions, pushing beyond the frames that would not contain her dynamic
artistic endeavors. Keller's survey of Hammer's work is a vital text for students
and scholars of film, queer studies, and art history."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Hammer, Barbara (1939-2019) -- Critique et interprétation
Homosexualité et cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 233092 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Réalisation - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814348581. - ISBN 0814348580. - ISBN 9780814348598. - ISBN 0814348599. -
ISBN 9780814348604 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46909945g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46909945
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction:. Experimentation in the first films ; ; Ambition and legacy ; ; The
chapters -- ; 1970s: Barbara Hammer, queer pioneer. ; The early years ; ; I was/I
am (1973) ; ; Lesbian bodies, queer experimental pioneer ; ; Radical form for radical
content -- ; 1980s: Vocation and expansion. ; Travel and place: Our trip (1980), Pools
(1981), and Bent time (1984) ; ; Intimacy and Sync touch (1981) -- ; The arrival of
Optic nerve (1985) ; ; Technological experiments and No no nooky T.V. (1987) ; ; Still
point (1989) ; ; Janus-facing the 1980s -- ; 1990s: Rewriting herstory. ; Not bare
bones/Between things ; ; Nitrate kisses (1992) ; ; Out in South Africa (1994) ; ;
Rewriting history: Tender fictions (1995) and The female closet (1998) -- ; 2000-2019:
Legacy. ; History lessons (2000) and Resisting Paradise (2003) ; ; A horse is not
a metaphor: or is it? ; ; Maya Deren's sink (2011) and Welcome to this house (2015):
traces of film, people, and places ; ; Evidentiary bodies x 4 ; ; Conclusion? Further
issues of legacy -- ; A few last words: Hammer on Hammer.
