Flesh Cinema CB: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film

by Ara Osterweil

Flesh Cinema: The corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed American visual culture, but also the lives of those who created it. By situating these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719088801
• ISBN13: 9780719088803
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"