Research Catalog

Title

The legend of Barbara Rubin / edited by Jonas Mekas, Chuck Smith [and 6 others] ; texts by John Cavanaugh [and 8 others].

Author

Rubin, Barbara

Publication

Leipzig : Spector Books, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019

Description

215 pages : illustrations, facsimilies; 27 cm.

Summary

The filmmaker Barbara Rubin, who was a teenager in the New York Underground in the 1960s, immediately became one of its key figures. Her groundbreaking double projection film, Christmas on Earth in 1963, was sexually provocative and aesthetically innovative. Rubin worked regularly with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, she introduced Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg and connected Warhol to The Velvet Underground. During an intense journey, she wrote passionate letters about the film and the underground to Mekas. In this special 80th issue of the magazine Film Culture features her letters to Mekas published for the first time, as well as interviews and her screenplay, Christmas on Earth Continued, a planned sequel to her notorious film.

Series Statement

Film Culture 80

Uniform Title

Film and culture ; 80.

Alternative Title

Film Culture 80

Subjects

• Interviews
• Records and correspondence
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Biographies
• Biography
• Motion picture producers and directors > Biography
• Rubin, Barbara > Correspondence
• Rubin, Barbara > Interviews
• Rubin, Barbara > Biography > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews.
• Records and correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Barbara Rubin. A preface / Jonas Mekas -- Letters from Barbara Rubin. An introduction / Chuck Smith -- Letters from Barbara Rubin, January 1964-spring 1964 -- She picked up a camera and decided to be a filmmaker / Amy Taubin -- Christmas on Earth: an overwhelming, great experience of my life / Richard Foreman -- Letters from Barbara Rubin, Spring 1964-July 1965 -- Christmas on Earth continued: statement -- Christmas on Earth continued: script -- Christmas on Earth continued: again -- Letters from Barbara Rubin, Summer 1965-February 1967 -- conversation 1 with Barbara Rubin and John Cavanaugh, 1967 -- Letters from Barbara Rubin, ca. 1967-ca. 1970 -- Conversation 2 with Barbara Rubin and Jonas Mekas, 1972 -- Barbara Rubin's spirit / Chuck Smith -- Saint Barbara. An afterword / Ara Osterweil -- Edit film culture! / Christian Hiller and Marc Siegel.

ISBN

• 9783959052023
• 3959052022

OCLC

• on1076363657
• SCSB-9308143

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library