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Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin

Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin

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DirectorsFilm & Video ArtFilm Studies

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ISBN10: 3959052022
ISBN13: 9783959052023
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Nov 27 2018
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.60 Depth: 10.50
Language: English

Having entered the New York underground in the 1960s while still a teenager, filmmaker Barbara Rubin (1945-80) quickly became one of its key figures. Her pioneering 1963 double-projection film Christmas on Earth, featuring painted and masked performers engaging in a variety of gay and straight sexual acts, was both aesthetically innovative and sexually provocative. She worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and connected Warhol with The Velvet Underground. During an intense period of activity and travel, Rubin wrote passionate letters about film and the underground to Mekas.

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