Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001

Joan Hawkins is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University.

• Downtown Cinema Revisited -  Joan HawkinsAcknowledgementsDowntown Body -  Ward ShelleyPart I: MomentsChapter 1: In the Movie-Viewing Machine: Essential Cinema and the 1970s -  David SterrittChapter 2: No Wavelength: The Para-Punk Underground -  J. HobermanChapter 3: At Last Real Movies: Super 8 Cinema from New York -  Tony ConradChapter 4: Downtown’s Room in Hotel History -  Lynne TillmanPart II: ScenesChapter 5: The Blank Generation and Punk/Downtown History -  Mark BenedettiChapter 6: Birth of the Blank Generation -  Ivan and Cindy KralChapter 7: Downtown Godard -  Jonathan Everett HaynesChapter 8: ‘A Crack in the Veneer’: A Conversation with Beth B - Beth B and Joan HawkinsChapter 9: Lydia Lunch, The Right Side of My Brain -  Chuck KleinhansChapter 10: Pleasure and Danger: Bette Gordon’s Variety -  Joan HawkinsChapter 11: Interview with Bette Gordon -  Bette Gordon and Joan HawkinsChapter 12: The Time of His Life: Spalding Gray -  Laurie StoneChapter 13: Mixing Blag Flag, DIY, Lo-Fi, and Oulipo: Jon Moritsugu’s Mommy Mommy Where’s My Brain -  Jack SargeantChapter 14: Cast Iron TV and Friends: Artists’ Public Access in Manhattan -  Terese SvobodaChapter 15: TV Party: A Cocktail Party That Could Also be a Political Party -  Benjamin OlinChapter 16: The Case of Electra Elf: Towards New Possibilities of Underground Counterculture in the Twenty-First Century -  Nick Zedd and David SjöbergChapter 17: Cock Worship: Todd Haynes, Fassbinder, and Queer Praxis -  Chris DumasChapter 18: Downtown’s Queer Asides -  Lucas Hilderbrand, Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, and Ricardo MontezPart III: MemorialsChapter 19: Canonization and No Wave Cinema History -  Mark BenedettiChapter 20: The Downtown Scene in the Digital Era -  Laurel WestrupChapter 21: You Had to be There: The Downtown Archive and the Future of an Impossible Past -  Richard Toon and Laurie StoneChapter 22: The Centre Cannot Hold: Blank City (2010) and the Problems of Historicizing New York’s Independent Cinema of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s -  Juan Carlos KaseChapter 23: Experimental Film - Chris KrausFilmography and Videography - Mark Benedetti