The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation

by Bloomsbury Publishing

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839025266
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/20/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

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.
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.

Table of Contents

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