Resolutions: Contemporary Video PracticesMichael Renov, Erika Suderburg Resolutions provides, by far, the best, boldest, and most thorough account to date of video art and activism, practice, and theory. The long-awaited follow-up to a project conducted by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), this volume presents original articles by many of the most interesting video artists, filmmakers, and critical theorists writing today. Their subjects, from video pedagogy to emerging technologies, are many and varied and together constitute a clear and complete picture of the state of the medium. Constructed like an inquiry into newly forming video practice, the collection at once interweaves and questions a series of relationships among politics, popular culture, artistic intervention, and social practices. The often provocative essays, on topics ranging from video porn to Geraldo Rivera to lesbian representation to the politics of video memory, contribute significantly to a much needed reconceptualization of the electronic medium. |
Contents
Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions Marita Sturken | 1 |
Artists Video and the Production of Social Space Christine Tamblyn | 13 |
The Image of Art in Video Maureen Turim | 29 |
The Access Medium Tetsuo Kogawa | 51 |
The Psychology of Video and Film John Belton | 61 |
Videor Jacques Derrida | 73 |
Video Confessions Michael Renov | 78 |
Notes for an Alternative Language of History and Amnesia Erika Suderburg | 102 |
Dweller on the Threshold Bill Horrigan | 165 |
Operative Assumptions Gregg Bordowitz | 173 |
Tongues Retied Marlon Riggs | 185 |
The Video Technology of Cultural Resistance Monica Frota | 258 |
The Politics of Culture and Community Ron Burnett | 283 |
Reproductive Rights | 304 |
Female Transgression Laura Kipnis | 333 |
Julie Zandos Primal Scenes and Lesbian Representation Judith Mayne | 346 |
The Subject of Autobiography David E James | 124 |
Longing for Real Life Rosanna Albertini | 134 |
The Images of the World Raymond Bellour | 149 |
Wedding Video and Its Generation James M Moran | 360 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 401 |
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