Underground Film

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Contents: Introduction / J. Hoberman = v Preface to the 1972 Edition = xvii The Underground versus the Taboo on Reality = 1 The Exploding Peephole of the Underground = 9 Toward Exhibition and Exhibitionism = 17 Popularizing Peepshows: the Infantile Gimmick = 24 No Establishment at all? = 32 Underground Climb: from Exhibitionism to Art = 35 Underground Infantilism: Surfacing Superstars = 45 Superstar Space: the Playroom = 51 Can the Technician Escape the Pad? = 60 The Pad Can Be Commercialized = 64 Performing Children, Performing Madmen = 72 The Paranoiac - Critical Kick = 83 The Pad’s Predecessor: an Archetype = 91 Underground Film Is Primitive Film = 102 Where the Rub Is = 106 The Abstractness of Avant-Gardes = 111 The Avant-Garde Laboratory = 116 Dotting the Eyes of Distortion = 122 Psychedelic Anamorphosis and Its Lesson = 129 Dotting the Eye of History = 132 Film Aesthetics: Rampant and Purist = 141 The Plot Thickens—but Seriously = 143 The Plastic Pulse Ticks On = 151 In the Pad: Plastique versus Surplot = 157 Hard-core History = 164 The Ethics of Film History = 177 The Population Explosion and the Remedy = 185 Basic Film Forms = 191 History and Manifesto = 197 The Shape of Things to Come? = 221 Coda = 236 Filmography = 241 Afterword / Charles Boultenhouse = 250 Index = 254 Photographs following page = 122

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