TY - BOOK ID - 86077017 TI - Indiscretions PY - 1990 SN - 0253055792 9780253055798 0585023735 9780585023731 0253337437 0253205875 9780253337436 9780253205872 PB - Bloomington DB - UniCat KW - Experimental films. KW - Experimental films KW - History and criticism. KW - Avant-garde films KW - Experimental videos KW - Personal films KW - Underground films KW - Motion pictures KW - Video art KW - Film history, theory & criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86077017 AB - 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 subject of feminist film theory. She creates a dialogue among theory and popular culture and politics through inventive readings of the films of Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, and Sally Potter, and videotapes by Ant Farm, TVTV, Michael Smith, William Wegman, and Cecelia Condit. ER -