Films That Spill

MARIE SOPHIE BECKMANN is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at Carl von Ossietzky UniversitÄt Oldenburg in Germany.

"A lively, engaging, and interdisciplinary account of the Cinema of Transgression and its afterlives, underpinned by deep archival research and conversations with key figures in the scene." - Fiona Anderson (author of Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront) "A provocative rethinking of the legacies of the Cinema of Transgression as simultaneously site, scene, and body of works, Films That Spill provides a much-needed revision and insightful probing of the mythos of 1980s downtown New York filmmaking, offering new pathways for understanding its vital, messy imaginaries, circulations, and afterlives."  - Elena Gorfinkel (author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s)

• Introduction: Spilling/Containment               1          Forgetting the Cinema of Transgression       2          Downtown Images                                        3          Film Happens                                    4          Afterlife Formats       Coda: Keep on SpillingAppendixAcknowledgmentsBibliography