Althusser, Louis, 159, 169
Anger, Kenneth: his Scorpio Rising, 7, 8, 22, 26; mentioned, xvi, xvii, 3, 48, 107
Ant Farm, 51-54, 192; and Media Burn, 52, 67; and Eternal Frame, 54-59, 115
Arnheim, Rudolph, 8, 34
Auteurism, 2, 43
Avant-garde: and postmodernism, xv, xvii, 93, 101, 102, 107, 146, 164, 211
Baillie, Bruce: his All My Life, xvii; his To Parsifal, 21; mentioned, 5, 6
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 103, 132-133, 134, 136, 180, 182-184, 188
Barthes, Roland, ix, x, 6-7, 13, 14, 16, 71, 85-89, 91, 93, 97, 98, 102-104, 115-116, 118, 121, 205, 210
Bartlett, Scott, xvii
Baudrillard, Jean: his Simulations, 81-83; mentioned, 40, 50, 54-55, 58, 60, 84, 108, 111-112, 114, 122, 138, 173, 206
Baudry, Jean-Louis, 75, 96
Bazin, Andre, 8
Benjamin, Walter: his “Storyteller,” 130, 133, 135, 138-139; his “Berlin Chronicle,” 142-144, 146-147, 205; mentioned, xviii, xix, 3, 47, 83, 94, 100, 126
Berger, John, 20, 81, 106, 111, 124
Bergstrom, Janet, 18, 27, 92, 93, 101, 193
Binary logic, 21, 200-204, 207-208
Blau, Herbert, 137
Bloom, Harold, 19-20, 26, 28-31, 38, 100
Borden, Lizzie: her Born in Flames, 91, 144, 156, 184
Brakhage, Stan: his Metaphors on Vision, 7; his Anticipation of the Night, 92; his Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes, 101; mentioned, xi, xvi, xvii, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 17, 19-20, 24, 27-29, 189, 193, 194, 199
Burger, Peter, xv, 72
Child, Abigail: her Mayhem, 39, 203
Christie, Julie, 159, 161, 163
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), 158, 166
Clarke, Shirley, 1, 197, 198
Classical cinema, 69-71
Comolli, Jean-Louis, 75, 96
Condit, Cecelia: her Beneath the Skin and Possibly in Michigan, 131-139; her Not a Jealous Bone, 212-213; mentioned, 10, 15, 126, 129
Conner, Bruce: his A Movie, 104-107, 192-193; mentioned, 9
Conrad, Tony, xi, 9, 10
Cook, Pam, 159-161
Cornell, Joseph, 190-191
Counterculture, xii-xiv, xvii, 3, 17, 40, 42- 44, 46, 65-67, 204-205
Danielson, Rob: his Da Fort, 74-77; mentioned, 9, 10
De Certeau, Michel: his Practice of Everyday Life, 142, 146, 147-148
De Lauretis, Teresa, xi, 4, 24, 28, 29-30, 36, 41, 84, 101, 130, 132, 135, 141, 152, 189, 208
Deleuze, Gilles: on simulacrum, 59, 83-84, 115; and Felix Guattari, 168, 188-195, 198, 200-202, 207-210
Delluc, Louis, xv
De Michel, Helen, 180
Deren, Maya: her Meshes of the Afternoon, 32-35; mentioned, xiv, xvii, 5
Difference, xi, xvii, 185-186, 211
Distribution/exhibition, 9-11, 16
Doane, Mary Ann, 9
Drummond, Phillip, 35-36, 38, 39
Duras, Marguerite: her Hiroshima Mon Amour, 146-148
Durgnat, Raymond, 128
Early cinema, xv, 93, 95, 158, 165-167, 168, 172
Economics, 11, 15
Eisenstein, Sergei, xv-xvi, 3-4, 5, 9, 21, 47, 98, 157, 185, 189, 193
Enunciation, 84, 89, 115, 130, 149, 151, 153, 162, 184
Envy, 155
Felman, Shoshana, 14
Female subjectivity, xi, xii, 11-12, 17, 21-23, 26, 114, 146, 149-187
Fetish, 104, 106, 164, 169
Feuer, Jane, 163, 164
Film Culture, xiii, 43
Film History, 104
Film theory, 102-103, 181-182
Filmic apparatus, 94, 96
Fisher, Morgan, 9, 208
Foster, Hal, xv, 129-130
Foucault, Michel: his History of Sexuality, 40, 65, 67, 69-71; mentioned, xi, 1, 4-5, 5-6, 16, 64, 74-75, 78, 108, 121, 124, 127, 173, 174, 178, 185, 186, 188, 199, 200, 206, 210
Frampton, Hollis: his Zorns Lemma, 7; his Nostalgia, 9, 99-101; his Critical Mass, 9, 97-99, 207; his Poetic Justice, 99; mentioned, xvi, 10, 77, 198-199
Freud, Sigmund: his “ ‘Uncanny,’ ” 38-39, 132, 137-138, 160; and feminism, 40-42; his Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 77, 100, 197; his Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 117; his Delusion and Dream, 141-142; on identification, 170; on “Little Hans,” 207; on age, 212; mentioned, 14, 20, 31, 108, 126, 130, 167-168
Friedrich, Su, 35
Gehr, Ernie, xi, 92, 194
Gerson, Barry, xi, 92
Gish, Lillian, 167
Godard, Jean-Luc, xv, 3, 42, 107, 145, 146, 196, 201
Grosz, Elizabeth, 168, 208
Guattari, Felix: and Gilles Deleuze, 168, 188-195, 198, 200-202, 207-210; mentioned, xvii
Guerrilla TV, 45-54
Hall, Doug, 53
Hanhardt, John, xiii, 5
Heath, Stephen: his “Repetition Time,” 100-101; mentioned, x, xi, 11, 37, 75, 178, 185
Hebdige, Dick, 16, 129
Henwood, Doug, 209
Hertz, Neil, 13-14
Heterosexual contract, 160
Hitchcock, Alfred: his Psycho, 37, 152, 161; mentioned, 163
Honolulu Film Festival (Vietnamese films), 211
Hutcheon, Linda: her Theory of Parody, 134, 181
Huyssen, Andreas, xv, 42, 107, 108-109, 111, 123, 144
Identification, 151, 153, 154, 161, 162, 170-171
Inner speech, 89, 120
Internationalism, 95, 208-211
Intonation, 183
Jacobs, Ken: his Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son, 7, 94-97, 100, 153; mentioned, 3, 10, 193
Jameson, Fredric, xv, 111, 112-114, 205
Jardine, Alice, 200
Johnston, Claire, 156, 157, 161, 196, 208
Keaton, Buster: in Sherlock Junior, 167; mentioned, xv-xvi, 39, 43, 97
Kubelka, Peter, xi
Kuchar, George, 11
Lacan, Jacques, 6, 7-8, 20, 40, 72, 75, 100, 110, 113, 124, 129, 153, 155, 163, 173, 175-176, 206
Land, Owen (George Landow): his Institutional Quality and Remedial Reading Comprehension, 77-81; his On the Marriage Broker Joke, 207-209; mentioned, xiii, xvii, 9, 25, 84-85, 99, 115, 189, 191, 203
LeGrice, Malcolm, 95
LeSage, Julia, 41, 42, 84
Lodge, David: his Small World, 140-141
Look, the (the gaze), 72, 76, 100, 115, 124, 160, 170, 174-175
Lord, Chip: his Motorist, 52; mentioned, 51, 53, 59
Lyotard, Jean-Francois: on sublimity, xviii; his “Acinema,” 92-93, 98, 100, 117, 185, 193; mentioned, xii, 4, 75
MacDonald, Scott, 10
McLuhan, Marshall, 46
Mangolte, Babette: her Sky on Location, 171-172; mentioned, 160
Markopoulous, Gregory, 189
Masquerade, 159, 166
Mekas, Jonas, 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 188-199, 201-202, 211
Melies, George, xvi
Metz, Christian, 158
Michelson, Annette, xi, 3-5, 190
Modleski, Tania, 112
Mormon, Charlotte, 122, 123
Morris, Meaghan: on Lyotard, xviii, 93; on Baudrillard, 112; her “At Henry Parkes Motel,” 146; on Foucault, 180; her “Politics Now,” 205; mentioned, 178, 184, 200, 211
Mulvey, Laura, 11-12, 17-21, 38, 152, 199, 208
Musical, 163-164
Narrative, 73, 95; vs. avant-garde, xiv, xviii; conventions of, 2
National Endowment for the Arts, 10
Nelson, Robert: his Great Blondino, 21; his Bleu Shut, 85-89, 207; mentioned, xiii, xvi, xvii, 6, 7, 9, 25
New American Cinema: the Group, 1-2; structure, 5-7; and theory, 6-11
Optical printer, 96
Oshima, Nagisa, 145-146
Owens, Craig, xv, 109, 110-111
Paik, Nam June: his Selling of New York, 121-122; other videos, 122-125; mentioned, 45
Parody, 114, 131, 181
Penley, Constance, 24, 27, 93, 101
Petro, Patrice, 144
Pickford, Mary, 166-167
Plato, 108
Poggioli, Renato, xviii, 201
Polan, Dana, 200
Popular culture, xv-xvi, 18, 53, 97, 101, 102, 104, 108; and postmodernism, 108-114
Postmodernism, xv, xvii, xix, 184-185; and feminism, 108-114
Potter, Sally: her Thriller, 35, 36, 39, 124, 137, 138, 151-155, 199, 212-213; her Gold Diggers, 144, 145, 157-172, 189; her biography, 150-152; mentioned, x, xvii, 3
Rainer, Yvonne: her Man Who Envied Women, 157, 173-187; mentioned, xi, xvii, 3, 11, 144, 189, 198-199, 212
Raynal, Jackie, 178-179
Renan, Sheldon, 25
Rich, Adrienne, 139, 149, 165
Rosler, Martha: her Vital Statistics, 124-125; mentioned, 121
Roszak, Theodore, 46
Russo, Mary, 129, 132-133, 179, 185-186
Said, Edward, 111
Sexton, Anne, 132
Shamberg, Michael: his Guerrilla TV, 48-58, 59
Sharits, Paul: his T,O,U,C,H,I,N,C, 7; mentioned, xi, xiii, xvi, 9, 10
Sitney, P. Adams: his Visionary Film, 17-33; mentioned, 5, 93, 190
Smith, Jack: his Blonde Cobra, 190, 193; his Flaming Creatures, 197; mentioned, 195
Smith, Mike: his Secret Horror and Down in the Rec Room, 118-121
Snow, Michael: his Region Centrale, xii; his Wavelength, xviii-xix, 92, 194; his So Is This, 9, 89-91; and Joyce Wieland, 12; mentioned, xvi, xvii, 4, 5, 6, 189
Sound, 8-9, 97-98
Spectator/spectatrix, 155, 163
Star system, 159-160
Stone, Judy, 181
Stone, Lawrence, 127-128
Taylorism, 73
Television, xiv, xix, 8-9, 48, 60, 61, 62-63, 65-66, 70, 82, 84, 115, 116, 118-121, 123, 203-204, 210
Temporality, xiv, xvii, xviii-xix, 83, 94
Toronto, International Experimental Film Congress, 201-202, 211
TVTV, 53, 203-204
University, 13-14, 73-81, 85-89, 185-186, 205-206
Vasulka, Woody, 9, 25
Virilio, Paul, xvii
Warhol, Andy, xvii, 22, 71, 72, 106, 107, 190, 191, 196-197, 203
Wegman, William, xvi, 114-118
White, Hayden, 113
Wiley, William, 87
Willemen, Paul, xv, 162, 163, 171
Williams, Linda, 37
Willis, Ellen, 41
Wittig, Monique, 160, 162-163
Wollen, Peter, 4, 43, 107, 189, 199, 216
Woolf, Virginia: her Three Guineas, 186-187; mentioned, 155, 165, 210
Youngblood, Gene: his Expanded Cinema, 68