| Author 1: | Nina Danino | |
| Title: | Aesthetics and Politics: Working on Two Fronts? Martina Attille, Reece Auguiste, Peter Gidal, Isaac Julien, Mandy Merck | |
| Published in: | Undercut | |
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| Year: | 1988 | |
| Vol./No./Date: | no. 17 | |
| Pages: | 31-39 | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| Synopsis: | The two films which set the agenda for "Sexual Identities" are "Close Up" and "Hanoi, Tuesday 13th". Both films deny the visual strategies of narrative cinema which treat film as 'transparent' and open up the debate around questions of representation and non-representation, narrative or anti-narrative strategies in film as constituting political positions in themselves, and the politics and place of desire and pleasure in a politically committed oppositional film practice. These questions are discussed particularly in relation to development of a new aesthetics, a new set of criteria defined and articulated by the needs and demands of black independent film practice in Britain. See TABB folders: "Undercut: 'Cultural Identities'." | |
| Keyword 1: | film | |
| Keyword 2: | aesthetics | |
| Keyword 3: | film theory | |
| Keyword 4: | sexuality | |
| Keyword 5: | identity | |
| Keyword 6: | black filmmaking | |
| Keyword 7: | non-mainstream | |
| Keyword 8: | resistance | |
| Keyword 9: | black British film | |
| Keyword 10: | representation | |
| Keyword 11: | independent film | |
| Keyword 12: | cultural diversity | |
| Keyword 13: | politics | |
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