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Who's afraid of Kathy Acker?
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A multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell, Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker ... is a thoughtful a...
A multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell, Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker ... is a thoughtful and creative film biography/essay on the late outlaw writer and punk icon, whose formally inventive novels, published from the '70s through the mid-'90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon. A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female voice.
Details
- Creator
- Women Make Movies ; a film by Barbara Caspar ; written and directed by Barbara Caspar ; co-writer, Andrew Standen-Raz ; producer, Annette Pisacane, Barbara Caspar, Markus Fischer ; produced by Cameo Film-und Fernsehproduktion, Fischer Film GmBh, Barbara Caspar/Fragile Features ; in coproduction with ZDF ; in cooperation with Arte, ORF
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- Docuseek streaming video
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Caspar, Barbara, screenwriter, film director, film producer
- Standen-Raz, Andrew, screenwriter
- Pisacane, Annette, film producer
- Fischer, Markus, film producer
- Cameo Film- und Fehrnsehproduktion (Firm)
- Fischer Film und Fernsehproduktion
- Fragile Features (Firm)
- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- Association relative à la télévision européenne
- Österreichischer Rundfunk
- Women Make Movies (Firm)
- Publication
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- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (84 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences
- Credits
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- Featuring Ira Silverberg, Avital Ronell, Sue Golding, Kathy Brew, Wendy Bowers, Gary Indiana, Mel Freilicher, Jeff Goldberg, Alan Sondheim, Sylvère Lotringer, Carolee Schneemann, Marcia Resnick, Victor Bockris, Richard Hell, Dennis Cooper, Peter Wollen, Leslie Dick, Barney Rosset, Kevin Killian, Peter Wiebel, Matias Viegener, Kathleen Hanna, Lynne Breedlove, Sheree Rose, Amy Scholder, Betsy Sussler; Students: Brenna McGuire, Abigail Schoenberg, Laura Hughes, Jessica J. Andres, Hadley Hege, Alyssa Chase, Michelle Hernandez, Jacqueline Shea, Jennifer Nives; Appearing in archival footage, Kathy Acker, William Burroughs, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andrew N. Wilson, Barbara Castle
- Cinematography, Marco Zimprich ; edited by Karina Ressler, Julia Kloiber, Claudia Nussbaumer, Markus Bader ; music, Roland Hackl, Werner Leiner, Thomas Pronai
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- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects
- Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- Interviews.
- Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Literature, Experimental -- United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- American literature -- Women authors -- Biography.
- Women and literature -- United States.