(Moving) Pictures Generation

Vera Dika is Associate Professor of Film Studies at New Jersey City University, USA. She is the author of Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia (2003) and a founding editor of Millennium Film Journal.

• Prologue: Downtown New York in the Late 1970s and Beyond Part I: (Moving) Pictures(Moving) Pictures: IntroductionStillness/Movement: Joseph Cornell, Edison Company, Andy Warhol, Jack GoldsteinThe Female Body and the Film Frame: Andy Warhol, Cindy ShermanVivienne Dick's Film PortraitsPart II: CommunityAmos Poe and the New York New WaveDowntown and Community: Eric Mitchell, James Nares, Nan GoldinPart III: Narrative ExpectationsStrategies of Transformation: Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Cindy ShermanStrategies of Opposition: Eric Mitchell, Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie BordenPart IV: The Cinematic BodyPerformance and the Cinematic: Paul Swan, Eric BogosianThe Ephemeral Body/The Female Voice: Louise Lawler, Ericka BeckmanPart V: Downtown and the MainstreamIncursions into Popular Culture: Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Kathryn BigelowConclusion and Continuation

"An intensive study of important activities in the New York art world of the late 1970s, this book manages the tricky feat of being at once broad in its concerns and concentrated in its attention to key figures, works, and propensities within an informal yet clearly identifiable movement. Dika gives an enlightening and edifying account of an art movement that has never been more vividly evoked and thoughtfully interpreted. This book constitutes a major intervention in the field." - David Sterritt, Columbia University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and chair of the National Society of Film Critics   "Beautifully written, The (Moving) Pictures Generation is the best single text on this era of the US avant-garde cinema. Dika's brilliant research brings developments in cinema, art, and music in late 70s downtown New York into a common focus, and situates the innovations in filmmaking in the traditions and theoretical heritage of the classic avant-garde." - David E. James, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, USA and author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, and co-editor of Alternative Projections: Experimental Film In Los Angeles, 1945-1980