Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices

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Michael Renov, Erika Suderburg
U of Minnesota Press, 1996 - Business & Economics - 419 pages
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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