Other cinemas: politics, culture and experimental film in the 1970s

Wide-ranging collection of essays focusing on aspects of experimental film in the 1970s, edited by Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey. Contents: Part One: Critical contexts for 1970s experimental filmmaking - 1. 'Semiotics and 1970s British film culture' by Nicolas Helm-Grovas; 2. 'Listening to women' by Sophie Mayer; 3. 'Political contexts of 1970s independent filmmaking' by Steve Sprung and Anthony Davies; 4. 'Platforms of history: Brecht and the public uses of radical history in 1970s independent cinema' by Colin Perry. Part Two: Infrastructures, technologies and 1970s experimental filmmaking - 5. 'Audiences: not an optional extra: artists' distribution practices from the London Film-Makers' Co-op to Lux' by Julia Knight; 6. 'Engaging material specificities: aesthetics and politics in the 1970s' by Kim Knowles; 7. 'The technologies and practices of 1970s community video in the UK' by Ed Webb-Ingall; 8. '"Whose history?' Feminist advocacy and experimental film and video' by Lucy Reynolds. Part Three: Practices, aesthetics and 1970s experimental filmmaking (the 200 avant-gardes) 9. 'A whole new attitude: the London Film-Makers' Co-op in the decade of structural/materialism' by Steven McIntyre; 10. 'The "salvage" of working-class history and experience: reconsidering the Amber Collective's 1970's Tyneside Documentaries' by Jamie Chambers; 11. 'Television interventions: experiments in broadcasting by artists in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s' by Catherine Elwes; 12. 'Britain's Black filmmaking workshops and collective practice' by Daniella Rose King. Part Four: Case studies - 13. 'Views of "River Yar": reconsidering Raban and Welsby's landmark landscape film' by Federico Windhausen; 14. 'Between seeing and knowing: Stephen Dwoskin's "Behindert" and the camera's caress' by Rachel Garfield; 15. "Rapunzel, let down your hair" by Amy Tobin; 16. '"On her devolves the labour": the cinematic time travel of "The Song of the Shirt"' by Kodwo Eshun. Part Five: Snapshots from the 1970s - 17. 'Memories of The Other Cinema' by Nick Hart-Williams; 18. 'Organising for innovation in film and television: The Independent Film-Makers' Association in the long 1970s' by Simon Blanchard and Claire M. Holdsworth; 19. 'The International Forum on Avant-Garde Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 1976: interview with Lynda Myles' by Kim Knowles; 20. 'The Workshop Declaration: independents and organised labour' by Claire M. Holdsworth; 21. 'Campaigning for innovation and experiment on Channel 4' by Claire M. Holdsworth and Rod Stoneman.