Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives

TY - JOUR

T1 - Raised Fists

T2 - Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives

AU - Murray, Ros

PY - 2016/5/1

Y1 - 2016/5/1

N2 - This article assesses the impact and import of 1970s French feminist video collectives, focusing on the relationship between technology, subjectivity, and embodiment. It investigates how early portable video technology provided the tools for an exploration of subjectivity as collective and political, focusing in particular on the work of French activist video collectives Vidéo Out, les Muses s'amusent, and les Insoumuses. Arguing for protoqueer, nomadic, dissident, and performative modes of expression, it demonstrates that collective subjectivity never follows a clear, linear pattern but rather emerges, so to speak, through the lines, much like the video image itself.

AB - This article assesses the impact and import of 1970s French feminist video collectives, focusing on the relationship between technology, subjectivity, and embodiment. It investigates how early portable video technology provided the tools for an exploration of subjectivity as collective and political, focusing in particular on the work of French activist video collectives Vidéo Out, les Muses s'amusent, and les Insoumuses. Arguing for protoqueer, nomadic, dissident, and performative modes of expression, it demonstrates that collective subjectivity never follows a clear, linear pattern but rather emerges, so to speak, through the lines, much like the video image itself.

KW - Video collectives

KW - Feminism

KW - Queer film

KW - Portapak

U2 - 10.1215/02705346-3454441

DO - 10.1215/02705346-3454441

M3 - Article

SN - 0270-5346

VL - 31

SP - 93

EP - 121

JO - CAMERA OBSCURA

JF - CAMERA OBSCURA

IS - 1 (91)

ER -