Author David E. James

David E. James

David E. James is the author of Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (Princeton, 1989) and has written about Nina Menkes’ work in his book, The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005).

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Interview with Nina Menkes

March 2008

Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Nina Menkes

Further illuminating insights come from the voice of the filmmaker herself, who was recently the subject of a retrospective at the 2007 VIENNALE.