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.
Volume editor:
Oliver Fuke
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781839025259
ISBN 10: 1839025255
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 13 July 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements 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 List of Contributors Index
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 für 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.
