One long electrical cord: dance, editing, and the creative unfinished

Karen Pearlman

doi:10.2307/jj.2010053.13

One long electrical cord: dance, editing, and the creative unfinished

Karen Pearlman

Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature

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Abstract

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997) is most often remembered as the director and editor of the powerful, controversial, and formally unprecedented Portrait of Jason (1967), and her daring adaptation of the stage play The Connection (1960), with its protracted censorship battle. However, this chapter will focus on the periods before and after she directed these and other long-form films in the 1960s. It will look instead at the approach she developed through making dance film in the 1950s, and the transformation of this dance-infused sensibility into the then-new medium of video in the 1970s.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Incomplete
Subtitle of host publication	the feminist possibilities of the unfinished film
Editors	Alix Beeston, Stefan Solomon
Place of Publication	Oakland, USA
Publisher	University of California Press
Chapter	9
Pages	211-225
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9780520381483
ISBN (Print)	9780520381469, 9780520381476
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2010053.13 https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520381483-011
Publication status	Published - 2023

Publication series

Name	Feminist Media Histories
Publisher	University of California Press
Number	5

Keywords

Shirley Clarke
filmmaking
Dance
Film Editing
choreographic
kinesthetic imagination
Authorship

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One long electrical cord: dance, editing, and the creative unfinished. / Pearlman, Karen.
Incomplete: the feminist possibilities of the unfinished film. ed. / Alix Beeston; Stefan Solomon. Oakland, USA: University of California Press, 2023. p. 211-225 (Feminist Media Histories; No. 5).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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One long electrical cord: dance, editing, and the creative unfinished

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One long electrical cord: dance, editing, and the creative unfinished

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Shirley Clarke: thinking through movement

Unfinished: women filmmakers in process

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