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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Rotterdam: "Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?"


Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay has this report from Rotterdam on "Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker":
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker, premiering here in Rotterdam, is Barbara Caspar's thoughtful and creative film biography/essay on the late writer, whose formally inventive novels, published from the '70s through the mid-90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon. A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female voice.
Full report here.

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