Writing by Laura Mulvey
‘For the purpose of writing this essay, I have had to think back, with an attempt at detachment, over the thirty or so years that have passed since the Women’s Movement began…’
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‘I have been thinking about the way that a break or fissure in the continuities of history has come to separate a “then” of the 1970s, the moment of origin, at least in Britain, of a feminist film theory and practice, from a “now”.’
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Writing by Peter Wollen
‘I wrote my book of film theory, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, during May 1969, the month of the uprising in Paris that has come to stand as emblematic of its period.’
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‘”Experimental film,” “Pure Film,” “Underground film,” “Co-op film,” “Avant-garde film,” “Counter-cinema”… How distant all these terms seem from the vantage point of today, how dated, how nostalgic, how difficult to explain.’
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