| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Kathy Acker |
| Event |
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2008. |
| Summary |
A thoughtful look at the late outlaw writer and punk icon whose formally inventive novels, published from the ’70s through the mid-’90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon. A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female voice. With her conceptual art videos in the ’70s, her close-cropped dyed blond hair, her tattoos, and her piercings, Acker was a performance artist, proto riot grrl, and living link to the transgressive authors of the ’50s and ’60s US and French experimental fiction scenes. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs International Film Festival.** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Gender identity.
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Women's studies.
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Artists.
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Literature.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Caspar, Barbara, film director.
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Acker, Kathy, actor.
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Women Make Movies (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
3594352 Kanopy |
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