Zimmermann, Patricia R.
3 records
De-Fantasizing the Profession and Re-Public-izing Cinemas or Holding on to the Real Bibliography
Plenary address to the Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, March 9, 2000; delivered by a film educator with two decades in a four-year undergraduate production program. The speaker maps an expanded field—film schools, communications, arts and medical curricula—and moving-image media (film, video, CD-ROM, web, installations), and diagnoses threats from corporatization, distance learning and declining nonprofit exhibition. Citing exchanges with NAMAC, Women Make Movies and the Robert Flaherty Seminar and referencing 1989 political events and global violences, they call for alliances with media-arts centers and offer ten programmatic wishes including anti-racist feminist politics, tenure lines and larger rental and programming budgets.
NAMAC Conference Keynote Address - States of Emergency Bibliography
Keynote address at the 1998 NAMAC National Media Arts Conference, dedicated to Leslie Schwartz Burgevin (1958–1998) of the Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, and acknowledging NAMAC board members Helen De Michiel, Charlie Humphrey and Karen Khan. The speaker diagnoses plural states of emergency affecting media arts—privatization, arts defunding, transnational consolidation (Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Disney) and technological change—and urges reclaiming independent media’s oppositional heritage and public space through new access, distribution and exhibition practices involving camcorders, CD‑ROMs, web sites and editing systems such as Avid and Media 100. The talk cites 1981 and 1989, Erik Barnouw and Paper Tiger TV and calls for collective, contested zones of practice.
States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies Demobilizations: Anesthetics, Dreams, and Nightmares excerpt Bibliography
This excerpt from Patricia Zimmermann's chapter Demobilizations: Anesthetics, Dreams, and Nightmares examines documentary and video strategies that demobilize wartime imagery and reattach it to the senses; it argues that formal interventions and new technologies (video processing, computer effects, multichannel installations, optical printing) can resuscitate sensory experience and resist the anesthetizing of visuality. The text analyzes films and tapes including Listen to Britain (1942), Night and Fog (1955, Alain Resnais), Hiroshima-Nagasaki (1970; Barnouw et al.), Meta Mayan (Edin Velez, 1981), Smothering Dreams (Daniel Reeves, 1981), and Dreamkeeper (Philip Mallory Jones, 1989), and cites theorists Buck-Morss, Renov, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Bhabha, and Felman and Laub; published by University of Minnesota Press, 2000.