Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory / 2 (Fall 1977) [cover: Tippi Hedren in MARNIE]

Berkeley CA: Camera Obscura Collective. Near Fine. 1977. (Issue 2). Journal. [faint external soiling and light handling wear only]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) An early issue of this groundbreaking journal. Contained herein: "The Avant-Garde and Its Imaginary," by Constance Penley; "Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's 'Accompaniment for a Cinematographic Scene'"; "Hitchcock, the Enunciator," by Raymond Bellour; two essays on the concept of "The Défilement," by Thierry Kuntzel and Bertrand Augst. Also, reviews/analyses of: COMMENT ÇA VA (Jean-Luc Godard); JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman), also incorporating excerpts from an interview with Akerman; LA FEMME DU GANGE (WOMAN OF THE GANGES) (Marguerite Duras); and WHAT MAISIE KNEW (Babette Mangolte). A "Women Working" section discusses the current projects of Chantal Akerman (a documentary about Maya Deren) and Marguerite Duras. The commentary/analysis on JEANNE DIELMAN, by Janet Bergstrom, is especially interesting in retrospective, given that film's recent ascendance to the #1 spot on the latest Sight and Sound poll of the greatest movies of all time. .