Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, & Feminism

by Patricia Mellencamp

Book Overview

Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205875
• ISBN13: 9780253205872
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher