Hammer! : making movies out of life and sex /

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Author / Creator:Hammer, Barbara.
Imprint:New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2010.
Description:280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7986420
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ISBN:9781558616127 (alk. paper)
1558616128 (alk. paper)
9781558616141
1558616144
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: I think l've always wanted to live up to my name.
  • 70s
  • Introduction: The 70s were a glorious time of feminist ideals and lesbian bed-hopping.
  • My Life as Henry Miller
  • Photos
  • Use of Time in Women's Cinema
  • Stillness in Motion: A Study of Relationship and Film
  • Lesbian Filmmaking: Self-Birthing
  • 80s
  • Introduction: Ever since I became an artist, I had wanted to move to New York City.
  • International Audiences: Personal Experiences of a Filmmaker
  • Touching and Receiving: A Lesbian Aesthetic
  • White Out
  • For an Active Cinema
  • Photos
  • Conference Sex (or The Names Have Not Been Changed as There Are No Innocents)
  • After Gertrude Stein
  • Change of Location: Bodies of Flesh to Bodies of Earth/Water
  • Lesbian Mainstream: Economics vs. Radical Play
  • Creative-Teaching Spaces: Home Movies
  • The Artist as Teacher: Problems and Experiments
  • Some Thoughts on Institutional Support, by a Media Artist
  • The Invisible Screen: Lesbian Cinema
  • 90s
  • Introduction: By the end of the 80s, I was fed up with compromising my filmmaking.
  • Risk-Taking as Alternative Living/Art-Making: or, Why I Moved to the Big City
  • Coming into Our Fullness: On Women Turning Forty
  • The Politics of Abstraction
  • When a Kiss Is Not a Kiss but Nitrate
  • Photos
  • Censorship
  • 00s
  • Introduction: Aging is interesting.
  • Maya Deren and Me
  • Resisting Paradise
  • Tender Fictions
  • Photos
  • Wishes
  • The Ephemeral Archive
  • The Creative Process
  • Acknowledgments
  • Filmography
  • Index