Films of Yvonne Rainer

• Forewordby Teresa de LauretisYvonne Rainer: An Introductionby B. Ruby RichImpossible Projectionsby Berenice ReynaudInterview with Yvonne Rainerby Mitchell RosenbaumIllustrationsFilm ScriptsLives of PerformersFilm About a Woman Who...Kristina Talking PicturesJourneys from Berlin/1971The Man Who Envied WomenFilmographyBibliographycompliled by Patricia White

"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scene are as key to how Rainer's films work as is language." The Independent "The scripts record the unique structure of [Rainer's] films, the stresses, strains, and crackling of voices layering over and into one another. Their publication is an important moment for feminist film." Cineaste "Rainer's films are not highly accessible but are important to the critical imagination as an example of the sustained exploration of political and feminist theory." Choice "Rainer's important work in the area of avant-garde filmmaking in the seventies and eighties is amply recorded in this book ..." Cantrills Filmnotes'