Rachel Garfield: Experimental Filmmaking and Punk - Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s Franciszka Themerson the gendered dimensions of self-optimization

the gendered dimensions of self-optimization

and a man’s identity is disguised with a coyote’s head: maybe he was a celebrity

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Rachel Garfield: Experimental Filmmaking and Punk - Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s Franciszka Themerson the gendered dimensions of self-optimizationBloomsbury, 2021, Softcover, 288 pages, 23. 5 15. 5 cm Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio