Ecstasy Unlimited

On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics

By: Laura Kipnis

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Paperback | 20 March 1993

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In "Ecstasy Unlimited", Laura Kipnis provides a collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of her videotapes. These essays, written from her perspective as a practising artist, in tandem with her videoscripts, are singular in bringing a wide range of theoretical sophistication to film and video studies. Kipnis challenges political and aesthetic orthodoxies. Her interpretations take risks at a number of levels, and do not easily fit into established disciplines and categories. Extensively illustrated with stills from her videotapes, "Ecstasy Unlimited" examines everyday life and popular culture produced by consumer capitalism in ironic - and, at times, very funny - ways. Laura Kipnis is a video artist and theorist whose work has been shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her latest video production is "Marx: the Video". She has written extensively on the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, feminism, and popular culture. This book is intended for students and academics of media studies, cultural politics.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Philosophy & Aesthetics Politics & Government Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Media Studies Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Television Television Scripts & Screenplays

Specific Films Film Scripts & Screenplays Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Videotape Distribution Information
Introduction: Crossing the Theory/Practice Rubicon	p. 1
Repossessing Popular Culture	p. 13
Ecstasy Unlimited: The Interpenetrations of Sex and Capital (1985)	p. 33
Looks Good on Paper: Marxism and Feminism in a Postmodern World	p. 101
A Man's Woman (1987)	p. 117
"The Phantom Twitchings of an Amputated Limb": Colonialism as a Female Disease	p. 195
Aesthetics and Foreign Policy	p. 207
(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler	p. 219
Marx: The Video: A Politics of Revolting Bodies (1990)	p. 243
Notes	p. 295
Index	p. 303
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On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics

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