The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation
Published on 18. May 2023
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-83902-524-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen's collaborative films, Wollen's solo feature film, Friendship's Death (1987), and Mulvey's later collaborations. Each text is followed by a new essay by a leading writer, offering a critical interpretation of the corresponding film. The collection also includes Wollen's short story Friendship's Death (1976), the outlines for two unrealised Mulvey and Wollen collaborations, and a selection of scanned working documents. The scripts and essays collected in this volume trace the historical significance of a complex cinematic project that brought feminist, semiotic and psychoanalytic concerns together with formal devices and strategies. The book includes original contributions from Nora M. Alter, Kodwo Eshun, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Volker Pantenburg, Griselda Pollock, B. Ruby Rich and Sukhdev Sandhu.
Reviews / Votes
This noble and overdue compilation serves as a much-needed affirmation of their powerful cinematic oeuvre. -- Bruno Guarana * Film Quarterly *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83902-524-2 (9781839025242)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Oliver Fuke is an independent researcher. His projects include: Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Beyond the Scorched Earth of Counter-Cinema (Whitechapel Gallery, London; HOME, Manchester and NYU, New York) and Yvonne Rainer: The Choreography of Film (Siobhan Davies Dance, London, 2018). With Nicolas Helm-Grovas, he has curated a series of exhibitions related to Mulvey and Wollen's work, at Peltz Gallery (London, 2019), Cooper Gallery (Dundee, 2020) and GAK: Gesellschaft fuer Aktuelle Kunst (Bremen, forthcoming 2021). Fuke has also developed many exhibitions and projects with artists, and is Gallery Manager for Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction Oliver Fuke
Introduction Laura Mulvey
Section 1 - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Collaborative Films
1. Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
2. Scorch the Earth, Start from Zero: Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Nicolas Helm-Grovas
3. Riddles of the Sphinx
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
4. Towards New Theoretical Instruments: Riddles of the Sphinx
Volker Pantenburg
5. AMY!
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
6. The Curse of Celebrity, Colonial Territory and the Flight to Freedom: AMY!
Griselda Pollock
7. Crystal Gazing
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
8. Economic Forecasting and the End of the Avant-Garde: Crystal Gazing
Esther Leslie
9. Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
10. Muse, Mutilation, Mastery, Martyr: Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
B. Ruby Rich
11. The Bad Sister
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
12. Timeshifting: The Bad Sister
Sukhdev Sandhu
Section 2 - Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death
13. Friendship's Death (fiction)
Peter Wollen
14. Friendship's Death (script)
Peter Wollen
15. 'Aliens wherever they have to go': Friendship's Death
Kodwo Eshun
Section 3 - Laura Mulvey's Later Collaborative Films
16. Disgraced Monuments
Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey
17. Preserving History: Disgraced Monuments
Nora M. Alter
18. 23rd August 2008
Faysal Abdullah, Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey
19. Two Portraits: 23rd August 2008
Laura Mulvey
Section 4 - Outlines for Unmade Collaborative Films
20. Possible Worlds
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
21.Chess Fever
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Section 5 - Working Documents
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction Oliver Fuke
Introduction Laura Mulvey
Section 1 - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Collaborative Films
1. Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
2. Scorch the Earth, Start from Zero: Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Nicolas Helm-Grovas
3. Riddles of the Sphinx
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
4. Towards New Theoretical Instruments: Riddles of the Sphinx
Volker Pantenburg
5. AMY!
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
6. The Curse of Celebrity, Colonial Territory and the Flight to Freedom: AMY!
Griselda Pollock
7. Crystal Gazing
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
8. Economic Forecasting and the End of the Avant-Garde: Crystal Gazing
Esther Leslie
9. Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
10. Muse, Mutilation, Mastery, Martyr: Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
B. Ruby Rich
11. The Bad Sister
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
12. Timeshifting: The Bad Sister
Sukhdev Sandhu
Section 2 - Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death
13. Friendship's Death (fiction)
Peter Wollen
14. Friendship's Death (script)
Peter Wollen
15. 'Aliens wherever they have to go': Friendship's Death
Kodwo Eshun
Section 3 - Laura Mulvey's Later Collaborative Films
16. Disgraced Monuments
Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey
17. Preserving History: Disgraced Monuments
Nora M. Alter
18. 23rd August 2008
Faysal Abdullah, Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey
19. Two Portraits: 23rd August 2008
Laura Mulvey
Section 4 - Outlines for Unmade Collaborative Films
20. Possible Worlds
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
21.Chess Fever
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Section 5 - Working Documents
Bibliography
Filmography
Index