Table of Contents

Downtown Cinema Revisited -  Joan Hawkins

Acknowledgements

Downtown Body -  Ward Shelley

Part I: Moments

Chapter 1: In the Movie-Viewing Machine: Essential Cinema and the 1970s -  David Sterritt

Chapter 2: No Wavelength: The Para-Punk Underground -  J. Hoberman

Chapter 3: At Last Real Movies: Super 8 Cinema from New York -  Tony Conrad

Chapter 4: Downtown’s Room in Hotel History -  Lynne Tillman

Part II: Scenes

Chapter 5: The Blank Generation and Punk/Downtown History -  Mark Benedetti

Chapter 6: Birth of the Blank Generation -  Ivan and Cindy Kral

Chapter 7: Downtown Godard -  Jonathan Everett Haynes

Chapter 8: ‘A Crack in the Veneer’: A Conversation with Beth B - Beth B and Joan Hawkins

Chapter 9: Lydia Lunch, The Right Side of My Brain -  Chuck Kleinhans

Chapter 10: Pleasure and Danger: Bette Gordon’s Variety -  Joan Hawkins

Chapter 11: Interview with Bette Gordon -  Bette Gordon and Joan Hawkins

Chapter 12: The Time of His Life: Spalding Gray -  Laurie Stone

Chapter 13: Mixing Blag Flag, DIY, Lo-Fi, and Oulipo: Jon Moritsugu’s Mommy Mommy Where’s My Brain -  Jack Sargeant

Chapter 14: Cast Iron TV and Friends: Artists’ Public Access in Manhattan -  Terese Svoboda

Chapter 15: TV Party: A Cocktail Party That Could Also be a Political Party -  Benjamin Olin

Chapter 16: The Case of Electra Elf: Towards New Possibilities of Underground Counterculture in the Twenty-First Century -  Nick Zedd and David Sjöberg

Chapter 17: Cock Worship: Todd Haynes, Fassbinder, and Queer Praxis -  Chris Dumas

Chapter 18: Downtown’s Queer Asides -  Lucas Hilderbrand, Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, and Ricardo Montez

Part III: Memorials

Chapter 19: Canonization and No Wave Cinema History -  Mark Benedetti

Chapter 20: The Downtown Scene in the Digital Era -  Laurel Westrup

Chapter 21: You Had to be There: The Downtown Archive and the Future of an Impossible Past -  Richard Toon and Laurie Stone

Chapter 22: The Centre Cannot Hold: Blank City (2010) and the Problems of Historicizing New York’s Independent Cinema of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s -  Juan Carlos Kase

Chapter 23: Experimental Film - Chris Kraus

Filmography and Videography - Mark Benedetti

About the Author

Joan Hawkins is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University.