Pop Cinema

Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Queer as Folk (2007) and the co-editor of Queer TV (2008). Tom Day is Executive Director of the New American Cinema Group/The Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York City.

• List of Figures/illustrationsNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction: Towards a Pop CinemaGlyn Davis and Tom DayPart 1: Framing Pop Cinema1. Notes on Pop Cinema, RevisitedWilliam Kaizen2. Pop and Cinema: Three TendenciesEd HalterPart 2: Pop Cinema’s Parameters3. Times Square as Pop Readymade: William Klein’s Broadway by Light (1958)Tom Day4. Arocha’s Black and White Pop: History, Desire and Politics in 1960s Colombia in Las ventanas de Salcedo (1966)Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernandez5. Psychedelic Agit-Pop: The Animated Films of Tadanori YokooClint EnnsChapter 6. Some Like It Pop: Replication and Repetition in Bruce Connor’s MARILYN TIMES FIVE (1968-73)Justin Remes7. A Lost White Girl of Pop: Writing the Drive to Fantasize in Daddy (1973)Kimberly LammPart 3: Pop Cinema, Mass Production and the Politics of Consumption8. Always Crashing in the Same CarGlyn Davis9. Wynn Chamberlain’s Brand X (1970) and the Politics of the GenericKara Carmack10. The Other Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Pop Cinema in Eastern EuropeDavid Crowley11. 'Mouthpiece of the Dictatorship': Television and the Domestic Sphere in Brazilian Women’s Pop Cinema, 1972-77Gillian Sneed12. 'Manhandle the Merchandise': Michael Snow’s Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly) (1976)Jon DaviesAppendix: A Pop Cinema FilmographyIndex

Lively, informed, and incisive, the essays in this collection make crucial contributions on the history, theory, and global range of what has been called “pop cinema,” a label that has been used all too often with little grounding or rigor. Glyn Davis and Tom Day’s edited volume offers the first book-length, in-depth treatment of the topic. As it decisively expands our understanding of pop art, of 1960s and 1970s experimental cinema, and of the symbiotic rapport between both, this volume is poised to become a key reference in all future discussions of these topics.